Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Joseph Gordon-LevittHesher
- Natalie PortmanNicole
- Devin BrochuT.J.
- Rainn WilsonPaul Forney
- Piper LaurieMadeleine Forney
- John Carroll LynchLarry
- Helen Slayton-HughesMrs. Rosowski
- Monica StaggsMom
- Frank CollisonFuneral Director
- Paul BatesMr. Elsberry
Recommendations
- 75
Rolling Stone
As played by the spectacular Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hesher is the id run rampant. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt dominates this slight, worth-a-watch dramedy. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Too dark for a very broad audience, it will flummox some viewers drawn by its cast but will strike others with its more-than-prickly approach and standoffish humor. - 60
Time Out
That T.J. and his family willingly allow this headbanging psycho(analyst) to move into their cluttered, dankly lit abode-the emotional damage is palpable, yo!-is just one of the film's many eyebrow-raising contrivances. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
As the checkout girl everyone's got a crush on, Natalie Portman makes a winsome return to her "Garden State" gawkiness. - 50
Chicago Reader
Writer-director Spencer Susser and cowriter David Michod (Animal Kingdom) generate fresh hells at a surreally rapid clip but cop out with an incongruously sentimental ending. - 40
Variety
The problem with the script by Susser and David Michod, working from a story by Brian Charles Frank, is that Hesher's uncouth behavior is so aggressively pushed to single-minded, crudely exploitative effect. - 40
Village Voice
Still, Hesher finds uncommon sympathy for people at loose ends, and although Hesher himself is sentimentalized and backhandedly inspiring, he never softens into an actual role model.
