Synopsis

I believe the film has the potential to inform, heal and possibly transform ... I was really, really moved by Mysterious Skin. - Margaret Pomeranz, At The Movies, ABCTVSmart, serious, well-made and superbly acted ... Compulsively watchable to the very last moment. - Rob Lowing, Sun Herald... an emotionally real, moving and powerful film, made with cool intelligence. It is surely one of the best released of the year. Mysterious Skin is superbly balanced between confronting, tough subject matter and exquisite, ethereal filmmaking ... A unique film experience. - Megan Spencer, Triple J, ABCWhen he was eight, Brian Lackey woke up in the crawlspace beneath his Kansas home with his nose bleeding, having no idea how he got there. After that, his life is different hes afraid of the dark, wets the bed and is plagued by terrible nightmares. Now eighteen, Brian believes he was abducted by a UFO.Neil McCormick is the ultimate beautiful outsider, the boy everyone loves from afar but is afraid of when they get too close. Also eighteen, Neil longs for the relationship he shared with his Little League coach when he was eight years old.Neils search for what he thinks is love leads him to New York City. Brians search for what happened to him leads him to Neil. Together they come to realize that the events that shaped them most were not what they seemed to be.Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, MYSTERIOUS SKIN puts us inside the hearts and minds of two very different boys living very different lives who maybe arent as different as they first appear.MYSTERIOUS SKIN is directed by award-winning director Gregg Araki (The Living End, Doom Generation) and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (10 Things I Hate About You), Brady Corbett (Thirteen), Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Bill Sage (American Buffalo) and Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas).

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