Hesher

Spencer Susser writes and directs this darkly comic drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson and Natalie Portman. After his mother is killed in a car crash, T.J. (Devin Brochu) falls into a deep depression. Living with his sleeping pill-addicted father, Paul (Wilson), and absent-minded grandmother (Piper Laurie), while at the same time being bullied relentlessly at school, he soon withdraws into a state of extreme social isolation alleviated only by his crush on bespectacled supermarket check-out girl Nicole (Portman). However, things change dramatically for T.J. when an unlikely ally comes into his life in the form of Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a nihilistic, foul-mouthed, heavy metal-loving pyromaniac squatting in a nearby abandoned building.

Director: Spencer Susser
Producer: Lucy Cooper
Producer: Johnny Lin
Producer: Natalie Portman
Presenter: Scott Prisand
Producer: Win Sheridan
Producer: Spencer Susser
Producer: Matt Weaver
Writer: Spencer Susser
Writer: David Michôd
Music: Frank Tetaz
Cinematographer: Morgan Susser
Actor: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor: Devin Brochu
Actor: Rainn Wilson
Actor: Piper Laurie
Actor: Natalie Portman
Actor: Brendan Hill
Actor: John Carroll Lynch
Actor: Monica Staggs
Actor: Mary Elizabeth Barrett
Actor: Audrey Wasilewski
Actor: Lyle Kanouse
Actor: Frank Collison