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Mysterious Skin
2004
· Movie
· 105 min
B
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #670
- IMDb #897
- Google retired #1302
- Rotten Tomatoes #843
- Metacritic #775
- Letterboxd #186
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1463
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #658
- Metacritic Critics #1115
- Metacritic Audience #437
- Criticker #445
- Douban #765
- Kinopoisk #1387
- AlloCiné #667
- Trakt #674
Every rating
65–90
out of 100
Two young men who shared a traumatic childhood experience deal with its aftermath in vastly different ways. One becomes a reckless teenage hustler, while the other believes he was abducted by aliens. Their paths slowly converge as they search for answers about a missing period of time from their youth.
Details
- Director
- Gregg Araki
- Writer
- Gregg Araki
- Released
- 30 March 2005
- Country
- United States, Netherlands
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $2.1M
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Awards
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