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Mysterious Skin(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-03-30
77%
1224 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.
Overview:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America,
Netherlands
Budget: $3,000,000.00
Revenue: $2,148,548.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Desperate Pictures
Antidote Films
Next Wednesday Productions
Movie: Mysterious Skin
Top 10 Billed Cast
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Neil McCormick
Brady Corbet
Brian Lackey
Michelle Trachtenberg
Wendy Peterson
Jeffrey Licon
Eric Preston
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Avalyn Friesen
Elisabeth Shue
Mrs. McCormick
Lisa Long
Mrs. Lackey
Bill Sage
Coach
Chase Ellison
Neil (Age 8)
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