Mysterious Skin
Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.
Two teenagers with similar childhood traumas cope differently: one becomes a gay hustler and the other obsessed with aliens.
- Year: 2005
- Country: United States of America, Netherlands
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Desperate Pictures, Fortissimo Films, Antidote Films
- Keyword: pedophilia, new york city, child abuse, amnesia, rape, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, trainer, hustler, trauma, kansas, usa, coming of age, male homosexuality, male prostitution, alien abduction, prostitution, buried memories, child molestation, repressed memory, childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, hopeless, 1980s, 1990s, loss of innocence, repressed trauma, hiv/aids epidemic, child sexual abuse, lgbt interest, nose bleeding, gay bar
- Director: Gregg Araki
- Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Elisabeth Shue