What is Mysterious Skin?
{{italictitle}} '''''Mysterious Skin''''' is a [[Dutch people|Dutch]]-[[United States|American]] [[drama movie]]. It was directed and produced by Gregg Araki. Araki also did the [[screenplay]]. The screenplay was based on a 1995 novel. The movie premiered at the 61st [[Venice International Film Festival]] in 2004. But it wasn't widely released until 2005. ==Plot== During summer 1981, Hutchinson, Kansas, two eight-year-old boys, Brian Lackey and Neil McCormick, are teammates in Little League baseball. Both boys have life-changing events. Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother. He is already learning he's homosexual. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach, who leaves town afterward. Brian has a neglectful father and working mother. He remembers it starting to rain during a game. The next thing he remembers is being inside a crawl space with a bloody nose. He doesn't have any memory of the intervening five hours. Neil views his [[sexual abuse]] as love; he becomes mainly attracted to middle-aged men. He begins prostituting himself at age 15. Three years later, he moves to [[New York City]]. His best friend, Wendy Peterson, lives there. For years after coming to in the crawl space, Brian has heavy nosebleeds, blackouts and wets the bed. When he's 18, Brian meets a woman, Avalyn Friesen, who believes aliens kidnapped her. They form a relationship. But when she comes on to him, he panics and refuses to speak to her again. While trying to untangle his confused memories, Brian sees a photo of his Little League teammate Neil; he recognizes Neil as the boy from his dreams. Brian wants to meet his former teammate Neil. But instead, he meets Neil's mother and his friend Eric Pressly; through Eric, Brian learns more on Neil. After being beaten and raped, Neil returns to Hutchinson to celebrate Christmas with his mother. Brian and Neil meet for the first time in over a decade. They break into a house that had been rented by the baseball coach. Neil begins telling Brian of that night. W