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Hesher

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This is one of those rare indi type films that is hard to categorise, except in being able to say it is ruddy excellent. It is about a young boy T.J. (Devin Brochu), who has lost his mother in a fatal car crash His father Paul (Rain Wilson of 'Super' fame) is wallowing in prescription drug dependency as a way to by pass the grief. They are living with his Grandma and life is slowly unravelling.

After T.J. smashes a window of a house where Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is crashing, their paths become entwined. Hesher follows him in the best stalker style and decides he will just move in. The first thing he does is strip off and do his laundry followed by making an illegal cable hook up so they can get more TV channels ' especially of the more adult variety.

T.J. is dealing with ghosts and bullies in equal measure and that leads to a chance meeting with supermarket cashier Nicole (Natalie Portman). T.J. bonds with her but Hesher is never too far away. He has an unhealthy like for profanity, porn, Metallica and arson; an ideal house guest you might say. Therfore not the sort of friend a young boy should really be associated with. What happens though is that the more mayhem he creates the more he breaks the catharsis of grief that is holding every body back.

This film does not stick to any convention, it is totally unpredictable and that is the essence of Hesher himself. There are no real pretty actors everything is seemingly low rent but with real people and it is so refreshing for that. Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues to take on challenging roles and make interesting and well crafted cinema and is one of those actors who can be relied upon to make viewing, anything he is in, worthwhile. That said every single performance is to the high end of excellent especially Devin Brochu as T.J.

Directed and co ' written by Spencer Susser in his debut for a major picture, who has struck cinematic gold for this off the wall, funny, rude, moving and brilliant film. It has not had a very wide distribution so I am hoping that it will do well in the DVD sales as we need more of this type of film and not less. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and would recommend to anyone who like the more 'odd ball' film, for mainstream film addicts this may not be your thing, but I would urge to give it a go- moving funny and excellent.

This was the worst movie I've ever seen in a long time. Very slow and boring, bad acting (except for Joseph).

I have no idea why I bought this. Maybe because I am a metallica fan but other then the fact that Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a metal head who loves Metallica which I connected with the movie was just ok to me. Mild humor, not too much action and kinda slow moving at parts. I have seen this movie a few times before and basically i came up with the idea that it isn't the kind of movie you want to watch over and over and over again. Not worthy of buying but definately worth a watch.

im not sure if there is anything quite like hesher, its so weird and hard to understand. Why dont they get rid of him? why is he allowed to stay? it seems like there a lot of hidden messages here that i just dont understand.