Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin film poster
Directed by	Gregg Araki
Produced by	Antidote Films
Written by	Scott Heim (novel), Gregg Araki
Starring	Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg
Music by	Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie
Distributed by	Strand Releasing
Release date(s)	3 September 2004 (Venice Film Festival)
Running time	99 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Mysterious Skin is California filmmaker Gregg Araki's eighth film. Debuting at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 (however it did not see a semi-wide release until 2005), it is based on a 1996 novel by Scott Heim and concerns the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two boys from Hutchinson, Kansas, a city of about 40,000 people. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (450x671, 82 KB)Mysterious Skin film poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Antidote International Films company logo. ... Scott Heim (born 1966) is a writer from Hutchinson, Kansas currently living in Massachusetts. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. ... Brady Corbet (17 August 1988 in Scottsdale, AZ) is an American actor. ... Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American television and film actress best known for her role as Dawn Summers in the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer. ... Robin Guthrie is a co-founder of Cocteau Twins. ... Strand Releasing, founded in 1989, specializes in releasing artistic films, often with a focus on the LGBT community. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ... // Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... Scott Heim (born 1966) is a writer from Hutchinson, Kansas currently living in Massachusetts. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Hutchinson is the largest city and county seat of Reno County, Kansas, 219 miles (353 km) west of Kansas City, Mo. ...

Synopsis

One of the boys, played by Brady Corbet, blanks out the entire experience and becomes convinced he was abducted by aliens. The other boy, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chase Ellison, feels he was specially chosen by the offender, a Little League coach, whose "love" became the highlight of his young life. He subsequently becomes a teen-age hustler, while the other boy feels asexual and is given to nosebleeds and fainting spells. Thus, one cannot remember; the other cannot forget. Both eventually find a kind of balance in the other's shared experience. Brady Corbet (17 August 1988 in Scottsdale, AZ) is an American actor. ... The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, currently used by the SETI project in the search for extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life. ... Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. ... Chase Ellison is a young American actor who plays Noah Newman, the son of Nicholas (Joshua Morrow) and Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) on soap opera The Young and the Restless. ... A male prostitute (or rent boy (UK)/hustler (US)) is a sex worker or prostitute who earns money by providing sexual services to clients. ...

Awards

2006 Polished Apple Awards - Best Movie [1]

Controversy in Australia

The movie has been the subject of some controversy in Australia, where a far-right national activist group called the Australian Family Association requested a review of its classification, seeking to have the film outlawed due to its depiction of child sexual abuse. Some have gone as far as saying that the movie could be used as an "instruction manual" for would-be child sex abusers. The six-member Classification Review Board voted four-to-two in favour of maintaining an R rating. The Australian Family Association (AFA) is an ultra-conservative national lobby group in Australia. ...

See also

• Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction
• Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in films
• Pedophilia

This article is about pedophilia/paedophilia in literature, i. ... Pedophilia, ephebophilia, and child sexual abuse have been an important theme in many films. ... Pedophilia, paedophilia or pædophilia (see spelling differences) is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. ...

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