'Mysterious Skin' goes for shock value
by John DeFore

Neil is a teenage prostitute who picks up older men in the park; his memories of being molested by a Little League coach are wistful, not traumatic. Brian, Neil's old teammate, has no social life and has recently begun to believe he was abducted by aliens during his youth. The two young men don't connect until "Mysterious Skin" is near its end, but it doesn't take much imagination to conclude that they have more in common than an old baseball uniform. Read the full review

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

FILM FACTS ...
Tartan Films USA
'Mysterious Skin'

Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, William Sage, Elisabeth Shue
Run time: 99 minutes
Release date: May 6, 2005
Rating: Not Rated

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Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"The movie isn't shy about shocking even jaded viewers... The film intends to show sexual abuse's power to dehumanize victims, and it succeeds."


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