Hesher

Hesher is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman and Devin Brochu. 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 heavy metal bands Metallica and Motörhead. Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression. He and his pill popping father Paul (Rainn Wilson) live with T.J.'s elderly grandmother Madeleine (Piper Laurie). T.J. is emotionally attached to the wrecked car, follows it to the garage when it is towed away. Chased away from the garage by Dustin, a school bully, T.J. falls off his bicycle and angrily breaks a window of a house under construction. This disturbs a squatting resident named Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who threatens T.J., but when a cop arrives, Hesher tosses an explosive out the window and...