Mysterious Skin

Kansas summer, cricket sounds, a baseball field. A teenage hustler and an alien-obsessed young man collide, their paths marked by fragmented memories and unspoken traumas. Araki's nuanced touch reveals the scars of repressed childhoods.

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Gregg Araki directed Mysterious Skin in 2005. See Gregg Araki's full filmography, where to start with Gregg Araki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Gregg Araki.

Mysterious Skin was released in 2005 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 105 minutes.