Hesher (2010)

Release date: 2011-06-25
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Spencer Susser
Production Co: The Last Picture Company, American Work, CatchPlay
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rating: 7.0/10
Length: 1h 46min

Storyline

T.J., a high school freshman, lost his mother two months before in a car accident: his father pops pills and sits on the couch; his grandmother holds things together, chatting and cooking. T.J. wants the car back from the salvage yard where the owner's son is a bully. By happenstance, Hesher, a foul-mouthed squatter, moves in with T.J's family. T.J. also meets Nicole, a grocery clerk near poverty who helps him once. Hesher involves T.J. in crime, the bully is omnipresent, mom's car is slipping away, dad has checked out, T.J. watches Nicole at work, and his grandma invites him to join her morning walk: the odds are long that T.J. can assemble a family to help him thrive.

Plot Keywords

vomiting, remote control, flashback, pizza, singer, singing, song, joke telling, lie, liar, hiding, vagina, penis, homelessness, car fire, parking lot, friend, friendship, arm cast, storytelling

Short Review

Happily, Hesher never lays things out too clearly. Just as you never know where he came from, it's hard to grasp where he's going, or even what he's doing in the moment. But you know he fits somewhere. And that's satisfaction enough.