Starring Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “The Office’s” Rainn Wilson and teenager Devin Brochu, “Hesher” features a father and son grieving over the recent death of their wife and ...

When Hesher blasts into the lives of the Forney family, it isn’t clear if he’s there to save them or murder them in their sleep. On the one hand, Hesher is a wandering, profane stoner/arsonist ...

It certainly feels like it. This year alone, we’ve already seen her in “No Strings Attached,” “Your Highness,” “Thor” and now “Hesher.” And she’s been on moviegoers’ minds ...

Nailing down "Hesher" is no easy task. Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't give a crap in the edgy drama 'Hesher.' Writer-director Spencer Susser's chip-on-its-shoulder drama comes off as a quirky ...

When parents talk about someone who'd be a bad influence for their children, they're basically talking about Hesher. This 20-something vagrant, played as an anarchic, overgrown wild child by ...

Hesher is an American independent film, the first feature directed by Spencer Susser. It is the story of a grief-stricken family, a 12-year-old boy, his father and grandmother, and the troubled ...

Scrawny teen T.J. (Devin Brochu) and his dad Paul (Rainn Wilson) are having a hard enough time dealing with the loss of T.J.’s mom without foul-mouthed, violent pyro Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt ...

A cascade of lawsuits over the indie bomb 'Hesher.' By Eriq Gardner When Hesher, starring Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, arrived at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it generated a fair ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t playing an uninvited guest so much as a manifestation of chaotic grief in “Hesher,” told from the point of view of a 13-year-old boy (Devin Brochu) whose struggle ...

A movie about loss for audiences who would like to firebomb the Hallmark Channel, "Hesher" enters with a metal riff and, even when it's time to, can't quite bring itself to go soft. By The ...

I saw Hesher last year at Sundance, and while it had some stock-indie-movie elements I didn’t love, the good parts still kicked enough ass that I named it to my top 10 of 2010. Since then ...