Hesher is a 2011 American "dark humor" drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. First screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2010, the film was released in the United States on May 13, 2011. Most of the songs on the film's soundtrack are tracks from American heavy metal band Metallica and British hard rockers Motörhead.
Following the loss of his mother in a...
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Hesher is a 2011 American "dark humor" drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. First screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2010, the film was released in the United States on May 13, 2011. Most of the songs on the film's soundtrack are tracks from American heavy metal band Metallica and British hard rockers Motörhead.
Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression, and social isolation. His pill popping father Paul (Rainn Wilson) and he live with T.J.'s elderly absent-minded grandmother Madeleine (Piper Laurie).
T.J. is emotionally attached to the wrecked car, follows it to the garage when it is towed away, and enters it without authorization. Young assistant Dustin is ordered to chase T.J. away, but T.J. hurts him by turning the window up. T.J. falls off his bicycle and angrily breaks a window of a house under construction. This disturbs a...
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