But what really gives “Mysterious Skin” such emotional traction is Neil’s painful lesson that in owning his sexual identity he has tried too hard to make the coach’s abuse consensual.

In Mysterious Skin, two 8-year-old Kansas boys are abused in the summer of 1981 by their Little League coach (Bill Sage), a practiced seducer of children who has the creepy look of a jock?

“Mysterious Skin” concludes on the bittersweet and wordless reunion ... Finally, more than a decade later, they sit remembering the day their little league baseball coach assaulted them. The film ...

“Mysterious Skin” opens a rare window into the complexities ... and then you have the other character [the coach] also looking at the camera.” It was that “editing trick” that made ...

“Mysterious Skin” tells the story of two young men in the small town of Hutchinson, Kan., and the ways in which sexual abuse at the hands of a Little League coach summers before has scarred ...

Mysterious Skin immediately confronts you with a young boy who is sexually attracted, whether he knows it or not, to his new baseball coach. There are two accounts of abuse portrayed, with Neil taking ...

Mysterious Skin, which he made in 2004 ... they are both sexually molested by their baseball coach as eight-year-olds. Both Neil and Brian respond to the abuse in startling different ways.

Neil, on the other hand, still feels like the attention from his coach was a form of love ... and her character doesn’t play into Mysterious Skin‘s final act, her presence lingers long ...

After the coach deflowers him ... start that his past traumas and Neil's are intertwined. When I reviewed Mysterious Skin back in 2004, I felt the film was almost fatally unbalanced.

Gregg Araki delivers his most challenging and arguably most mature film in “Mysterious Skin.” Adapting another ... with desire for the golden-haired coach (Bill Sage), who doubles as a de ...