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 falls into a state of depression, and social isolation. His pill popping father Paul and he live with T.J.'s elderly... absent-minded grandmother Madeleine . 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 squatting resident named Hesher , who threatens T.J., but when a cop arrives, Hesher tosses an explosive out the window and flees.
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| Release date: | January 22, 2010 |
| Directed by: | Spencer Susser |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Spencer Susser, Johnny Lin, Natalie Portman, Lucy Cooper, Scott Prisand, Win Sheridan, Matt Weaver |
| Editor: | Spencer Susser, Michael McCusker |
| Music by: | Francois Tetaz |
| Cinematography: | Morgan Susser |
| Screenplay by: | Spencer Susser, David Michôd |
| Estimated budget: | $7,000,000 |