Mysterious Skin

Released Year: 2004

Certificate: R

Runtime: 105 minutes

Genre: Drama

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 73

Director: Gregg Araki

Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison

No of Votes: 65939

Gross: 697181

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

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