Mysterious Skin
Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.
3/30/2005
Imdb: tt0370986
Tmdb: 11171
Popularity: 28.463
Vote: 7.6/10 (1061)

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Neil McCormick
Brady Corbet
Brian Lackey
Michelle Trachtenberg
Wendy Peterson
Jeffrey Licon
Eric Preston
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Avalyn Friesen
Elisabeth Shue
Mrs. McCormick
Lisa Long
Mrs. Lackey
Bill Sage
Coach
Chase Ellison
Neil (Age 8)
George Webster
Brian (Age 8)
Riley McGuire
Wendy (Age 11)
Rachael Nastassja Kraft
Deborah (Age 12)
Chris Mulkey
Mr. Lackey
David Lee Smith
Alfred
Kelly Kruger
Deborah Lackey
Ryan Stenzel
Stephen Zepherelli
Richard Riehle
Charlie
Larry Marko
Old Man with Scar
Clover
Patches
Bruno Alexander
Redneck Hick
Forrest Fountain
Jackson
Zane Huett
Jackson's Son
Reedy Gibbs
Receptionist
David Alan Graf
Gay Lumberjack
John Ganun
NYC John
Billy Drago
Zeke
Pete Kasper
Sedan Driver
Joan Blair
Customer in Yogurt Shop (uncredited)
Trieste Kelly Dunn
Date in "Blood Prom" (uncredited)
Nowhere
The Doom Generation
Kaboom
Smiley Face
North Sea Texas
Latter Days
Valley of the Dolls
Auto Focus
Fireflies in the Garden
Gandahar
Splendor
My Life in Pink
High Art
All or Nothing
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Patrick
My Tender Matador
This Special Friendship
Sole
In a Glass Cage
Walk on Water
Apocalypse Now
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Talk to Her
8 Mile
Absolute Power
Heaven Is for Real
Billy Elliot
American History X
Blade Runner
The Elementary Particles
Dirty Dancing
Anatomy of a Murder
Gladiator
Léon: The Professional
Taxi Driver
Mifune
Donnie Darko
All Quiet on the Western Front
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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