Mysterious Skin Synopsis & Movie Info

Synopsis

Two teens from the same small town (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbett) couldn't seem more different. Yet they have one, devastating thing in common -- both were molested by their little league baseball coach. They've dealt with the trauma in dramatically different ways: Brian (Corbett) is a repressed nebbish who's obsessed with the idea that he was abducted by aliens and Neil (Gordon-Levitt) is a gay hustler who thinks no one could love him as much as Coach and as a result can't reconcile sex with any emotional attachment. Michelle Trachtenberg ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer') costars as Neil's best friend who loves him dearly but sees him for the troubled guy he is. -

Movie Info

Starring:
Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bill Sage
Theatrical Release Date:
05/06/2005
DVD Release Date:
10/25/2005
Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Run Time:
99 min.
Distributor(s):
Independent Artists
Production Co.:
Antidote Films
Director(s):
Gregg Araki
Genre(s):
Drama
Themes:
Prostitutes, Kids in Trouble, Haunted By the Past, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Dangerous Attraction
Tone:
Sexual, Earnest, Visceral, Cathartic, Dreamlike, Enigmatic, Disturbing, Melancholy, Confrontational
Keywords:
hustler, pedophilia, child-abuse, sexual-abuse, single-parent, alien-abduction
Country of Origin:
USA - Limited
Language:
English
Status:
DVD

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