Mysterious Skin
“Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.”
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Desperate Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Mysterious Skin performed
Budget
$3.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.1M
Gross Profit
−$851,452
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$309K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Neil McCormick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Neil McCormick
Brian Lackey
Brady Corbet
Brian Lackey
Wendy Peterson
Michelle Trachtenberg
Wendy Peterson
Eric Preston
Jeffrey Licon
Eric Preston
Avalyn Friesen
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Avalyn Friesen
Mrs. McCormick
Elisabeth Shue
Mrs. McCormick
Mrs. Lackey
Lisa Long
Mrs. Lackey
Coach
Bill Sage
Coach
Neil (Age 8)
Chase Ellison
Neil (Age 8)
Brian (Age 8)
George Webster
Brian (Age 8)
Wendy (Age 11)
Riley McGuire
Wendy (Age 11)
Deborah (Age 12)
Rachael Nastassja Kraft
Deborah (Age 12)
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