Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

Neil (Age 8)

Brian (Age 8)

Deborah (Age 12)

Mrs. Lackey

Mr. Lackey

Mrs. McCormick

Alfred

Coach

Wendy (Age 11)

Stephen Zepherelli

Charlie

Wendy

Brian

Old Man with Scar

Avalyn Friesen

Patches

Eric

Redneck Hick

Jackson

Jackson's Son

Receptionist

Gay Lumberjack

NYC John

Zeke

Sedan Driver

Customer in Yogurt Shop (uncredited)

Date in "Blood Prom" (uncredited)

Baseball Mom (uncredited)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt wore blue contacts.

The logo for the fictional show "World of Mystery" is the same as the logo for real-life production company "World of Wonder".

The movie that Brian and Eric are watching in Eric's bedroom before Brian's mom enters and disrupts their "studying" is The Dead Next Door (1989).

When Neil looks in his fridge in 1991, cans of Diet Coke and Sprite are visible which are of post-1991 designs.

Brian's room features a poster of Suicidal Tendencies' "The Art of Rebellion", which did not come out in 1991, when the events are taking place, but in 1992 (June).

Minivan and passenger car seen parked at 32:44 were manufactured after 2000.

Neil: [narration voice-over] And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear.

Eric: I got a postcard from Wendy.

Brian: [giggles]