
Mysterious Skin(2005)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.


“They took his innocence when he was seven years old. He took mine when he was thirteen.”
A searing legal drama that centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating.
Andrew Martin
Tommy Jackson
Steve De Forest
Jim Aiken
Richard Meese
Glen Erskine
Cynthia Downey
Suzanne Erskine
Shawn Berry
Chris Manning
Lou Franson
Nathan Moultrie
Jeff Harman
Mark Carter
Joseph Ragusa
Peter Erskine

Darian Weiss
Benjamin Erskine

Monte Van Vleet
John Brantly
Return to Innocence is a drama film released in 2001 exploring themes of pedophilia, street kid. Directed by Rocky Costanzo, it stars Andrew Martin, Steve De Forest, Richard Meese. A searing legal drama that centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating.
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