Mysterious Skin (2005)
Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.
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Mysterious Skin rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.6/10· 84K votes
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic74%
TMDb7.7/10· 1K votesWith 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 74/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.
About Mysterious Skin
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Cast of Mysterious Skin
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)
- G
George Webster
as Brian (Age 8)
- R
Riley McGuire
as Wendy (Age 11)
- R
Rachael Nastassja Kraft
as Deborah (Age 12)
Mysterious Skin facts
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $2.1M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Raw emotional depth and unflinching narrative honesty
- •Thoughtful exploration of trauma with literary sophistication
- •Compelling performances anchor complex psychological themes
What the audience disliked
- •Slow burn pacing may test patience of casual viewers
- •Heavy subject matter offers limited emotional catharsis
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