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Mysterious Skin is the California filmmaker Gregg Araki's eighth film. Released in 2004, it is based on a 1996 novel by Scott Heim and concerns the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two small-town Kansas boys.

Synopsis

One, (played by Brady Corbet of Thunderbirds
), blanks out the whole experience and becomes convinced he was abducted by aliens. The other (Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun and Chase Ellison) feels that he was specially chosen by the abuser, a Little League coach, whose "love" becomes the highlight of his young life. He momentarily becomes a teen-age hustler, while the other 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 each other's shared experience.

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 paedophilia. Some have gone as far as saying that the movie could be used as an "instruction manual" for would-be paedophiles. The six-member Classification Review Board voted four-to-two in favour of maintaining an R rating.

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