Mysterious Skin

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

as Neil McCormick

Brady Corbet

as Brian Lackey

Michelle Trachtenberg

as Wendy Peterson

Jeffrey Licon

as Eric Preston

Mary Lynn Rajskub

as Avalyn Friesen

Elisabeth Shue

as Mrs. McCormick

Lisa Long

as Mrs. Lackey

Bill Sage

as Coach

Chase Ellison

as Neil (Age 8)

George Webster

as Brian (Age 8)

Reviews

kinrich30

This is the tale of two teens who were sexually abused as boys and how each of them coped with that over the years that followed. It was sad to see how badly it damaged them mentally....

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