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Mask

Turkish title: Günahkar

“They told 16 year old Rocky Dennis he could never be like everyone else. So he was determined to be better.”

1985 · 2 h
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
BiographyDrama

Cast

Cher Eric Stoltz Sam Elliott

Credits

Written by: Anna Hamilton Phelan

Plot

A mother tries to give her teenage son, who has a facial deformity, a normal life in the 1970s.

Sinekatalog’s take

Peter Bogdanovich's true-story drama follows a boy with a facial deformity and his fierce mother. Cher and Eric Stoltz are moving, and the film is sincere, if sometimes sentimental.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (35,638 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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