Final Official Movie Poster for HESHER with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hesher was a great movie driven by an insane character named Hesher played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film has a soild cast of actors that also includes Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson, and Devin Brochu. This is one of those movies you just have to see to believe, it's pretty whacked, but I enjoyed it.
I love the tag for this movie, "Sometimes life gives you the finger, and sometimes it gives you... Hesher."
The story follows a 13-year-old boy named T.J. and his father as they struggle with the loss of their mother and wife in a car accident. They move in with grandma in an effort to pick up the pieces and try to figure out how to move on with their lives. It is in the middle of this life experience that an anarchist loner who hates the world by the name of Hesher comes in and crashes the party of sadness. It is this incredibly screwed up person with long crazy hair, incredibly weird tattoos, and a fetish for lighting fires and blowing things up, that ends up helping this family in the most unexpected ways.
The movie is set to hit theaters on May 13th 2011. For those of you that are interested, you can read my Sundance 2010 review for the film here.