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Mysterious Skin (2004) 7.7
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7.7/10 from 40,105 users
Metascore: 74/100
Reviews: 222 user | 123 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. Director:Gregg Araki |
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George Webster | ... | |
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Rachael Nastassja Kraft | ... |
Deborah (Age 12)
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Mrs. Lackey
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| Elisabeth Shue | ... | ||
| David Lee Smith | ... | ||
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Riley McGuire | ... | |
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Ryan Stenzel | ... |
Stephen Zepherelli
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| Richard Riehle | ... |
Charlie
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Larry Marko | ... |
Old Man with Scar
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Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share. Written by Anonymous
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Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.Genres:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 August 2005 (Netherlands) See more »Also Known As:
Anoihti pligi See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
£39,382 (UK) (20 May 2005)Gross:
$697,181 (USA) (29 July 2005)Company Credits
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Brian: [narration voice-over] The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours. Lost. Gone without a trace.
Brian: [narration voice-over] Last thing I remember I was sitting on the bench at my Little League game. It started to rain. What happened after that remains a pitch black void.
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Written by Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm, Orri P. Dyrason
Performed by Sigur Rós
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises
Used by permission of Universal-Polygram Int. Publishing, Inc. o/b/o Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
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Car approaches traffic signal. Yellow light is a matrix of LEDs, but all yellow traffic lights in 1987 were incandescent bulbs. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Brian: [narration voice-over] The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours. Lost. Gone without a trace.
Brian: [narration voice-over] Last thing I remember I was sitting on the bench at my Little League game. It started to rain. What happened after that remains a pitch black void.
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Night of the Living Dead Directed by George Romero Originally distributed by the Walter Reade Organization See more »Soundtracks
"Samskeyti"Written by Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm, Orri P. Dyrason
Performed by Sigur Rós
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises
Used by permission of Universal-Polygram Int. Publishing, Inc. o/b/o Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
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Araki has abandoned the nihilistic day-glo world of L.A teens to create his first truly great film. Indeed, by any standards, this film is magnificent. It follows two boys; one of whom was abused as a child and the other who believes that he was abducted by aliens' from childhood to their troubled later lives. The film has a visual beauty that pulls the viewer in even though the subject matter is both difficult and painful. The director pulls no punches in confronting the viewer with the horror of the situation but neither does he exploit it for tabloid style sensationalism. From the superb performances, the excellent and intelligent script, through to the inspired direction and stunning 'shoegazer' soundtrack this is a splendid film. I left the cinema deeply moved by what I had seen and can now only hope that Araki continues to work at this level of quality. Something quite special and a work of art