A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Timothy Davis
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- (as Tim Davis)
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Did you know
- TriviaAll of Hesher's "persona", according to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is inspired by late bass player from Metallica, Cliff Burton. Not only that, but the movie features a significant amount of music from the "Burton" era, including the solo that Hesher plays in the garage (Anesthesia, from the Kill 'Em All album) and, of course, the Hesher lettering.
- GoofsTJ's cast in the opening scene switches between his left and right arm between shots.
From the very first scene with the cast, up to getting it cut off (09:17), the cast was on his left arm. Rapid cuts and shifting POVs may have caused this mis-observation.
- Quotes
Mrs. Rosowski: Life is like walking in the rain... you can hide and take cover or you can just get wet.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits resemble chalk writing on a blackboard, accompanied by (mostly) obscene graffiti.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Performances (2015)
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Truly Unique
I've seen probably 15,000 movies in my life, and I've never seen anything quite as fully realized as Hesher.
That's not necessarily to say it's great (though it is). It just succeeds completely at its intent.
Think Donnie Darko meets Jackass meets Kramer vs. Kramer, and I know how weird that sounds. It's reckless and antisocial and esoteric and yet somehow it distills into a completely honest and unpretentious social satire that feels more documentary than parody.
It would be hard to watch if it weren't so real.
Huge props to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Piper Laurie and Natalie Portman, but most of all to Devin Brochu, the 11-year-old moral center of this wasteland that we undeniably recognize as truthful while politely pretending it's a surreal dark comedy.
I love this movie. I've never seen writer-director Spencer Susser's work before but I'm eager to see more of it.
That's not necessarily to say it's great (though it is). It just succeeds completely at its intent.
Think Donnie Darko meets Jackass meets Kramer vs. Kramer, and I know how weird that sounds. It's reckless and antisocial and esoteric and yet somehow it distills into a completely honest and unpretentious social satire that feels more documentary than parody.
It would be hard to watch if it weren't so real.
Huge props to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Piper Laurie and Natalie Portman, but most of all to Devin Brochu, the 11-year-old moral center of this wasteland that we undeniably recognize as truthful while politely pretending it's a surreal dark comedy.
I love this movie. I've never seen writer-director Spencer Susser's work before but I'm eager to see more of it.
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- johndeckbose
- Apr 27, 2012
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $382,946
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $126,046
- May 15, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $449,702
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