Mysterious Skin (2005) Reviews & Ratings

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Mysterious Skin reviews

Mysterious Skin holds a 7.7/10 average from 1,370 TMDB ratings.

This is the tale of two teens who were sexually abused as boys and how each of them coped with that over the years that followed. It was sad to see how badly it damaged them mentally.
— kinrich30 (5/10)

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

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