MYSTERIOUS SKIN(20th Anniversary)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Doors: 6:30pm // Showtime: 7:00pm
Venue: Trylon Cinema
Tickets: $13
Film Trailer:
It is the 20th anniversary of Gregg Araki´s haunting cult classic film, MYSTERIOUS SKIN, two young men—one a hustler, the other obsessed with alien abductions—unlock a devastating, life-altering truth. Teenager Brian (Brady Corbet) becomes friends with Avalyn Friesen (Mary Lynn Rajskub), a woman who claims to have been abducted by aliens on several occasions, and she urges him to look to his dreams for patterns that might suggest what happened to him. Meanwhile, during the same summer, Neil developed a powerful crush on their little league coach (Bill Sage), who appeared to have also taken a shine to Neil. Neil’s mother (Elisabeth Shue), seeing nothing wrong with their friendship, lets the coach look after Neil while she’s off on one of her many dates, and before long Neil begins sexually experimenting with the older man. Neil’s introduction to sex inspires him to become a hustler when he grows into his teens, and after burning his bridges in his hometown, Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his close friend Wendy (Michelle Trachtenberg) move to New York, where he continues to cruise for a living but under significantly more risky circumstances. One day, Neil is contacted by Brian, who after seeing one of their team photos from their days in little league suspects he might have some clues as to what happened to him in 1981. MYSTERIOUS SKIN was based on the novel by Scott Heim, and marked the first time Gregg Araki made a film that did not originate with one of his own screenplays.
Dir. Gregg Araki, 2005, 105 min, USA
Event Venue
Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406-2426, United States,Minneapolis, Minnesota
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