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Mysterious Skin

2005·105 min

Mysterious Skin

Directed by Gregg Araki

Drama

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

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Neil McCormick

Brian Lackey

Michelle Trachtenberg

Wendy Peterson

Eric Preston

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Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte

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Mary Jane Skalski

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Mrs. Lackey

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Wendy (Age 11)

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Deborah (Age 12)

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Mysterious Skin (2005) is about a teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Who directed Mysterious Skin?

Gregg Araki directed Mysterious Skin (2005).

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