CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Michael Ledo The story centers around TJ after his mother has died as he and his dad attempt to get their life back to normal. TJ is a bad luck kid who is not only depressed, but bullied. Hesher, an anarchist, bullies his way into TJ's life and shows up at improbable times, almost as an imaginary alter ego. The writer attempts to shock the audience with the audacity of Hesher's acts as well as his crudeness, which I thought didn't work as well...especially the idiotic scene where he is talking about granny rapers, or his "perverted metaphor." The inability of the author to create audacity without constant crudeness shows a weakness.The actors did an excellent job. There were many scenes you sit and ask yourself, in a good way, "What just happened here?" Or "What the heck is he doing now?" Life as usual falls to its least common denominator as the grief stricken family starts to imitate the anarchist ways, which seem to lack consequences in this film. Parts of the film were excellently done, while other scenes were weak. I suppose the ending of the film was supposed to make us feel good about the whole thing, but it doesn't compensate enough. Personally I think that if they toned down the crudeness of Hesher and put in Zack Garifalakis in that role the movie could have been a box office smash.Normally I love these indie style quirky comedies, perhaps I have seen too many of them to enjoy this one to its fullest. And what the heck was Natalie Portman doing in this film?Excessive F-bomb use, crudeness.

samkan Hesher is fun to watch with some comical and touching scenes. All the actors perform very well, especially Devon Brochu, the young man at the center of the film and especially Piper Laurie as his grandmother. Gordon-Levitt's character's actions are funny but confusing: They're inconsistent with reality, well beyond plausibility. Unless there are no police in the subject area of California one cannot understand how Hesher continues to exist. Yet the film is not comical, surrealistic or forgiving enough to overcome such exaggeration. But by applying an undeserved suspension of reality the acting fused with the comic -and sometimes poignant- scenes will pull you in. If you're like me, merely finishing a film on Netflix assigns it merit. Pretentious Spencer Susser got lucky. Hesher is not the insightful masterpiece he may think it is, though it succeeds for other reasons.

warner2879 I can't believe how many people thought this was such a great movie ?!?!...Who was Hesher and where did he come from to just plant himself in these people's home ?!?!..But that's not the point ... What a mouth on this character ..... I am no prude and have been known to curse up a storm but this guy was ridiculous --- and all the filthy sexual acts he described in detail using this language ..... There was a time that this would have been considered an "X" rated movie for the language alone ........and Hesher was more of a bully than the one in school that was terrorizing the young boy ....What ideas this movie could put into a young vulnerable person's head ..... What kind of people are thinking that this was such a great movie ?!?!?!! .What was Joseph Gordon-Levitt thinking ?!?!.. I couldn't even stomach watching the whole thing and shut it off ..... What a waste of my time ..... If there was a "0" rating, that is what I would have given it .....

adi_2002 TJ is a brat who is not lucky in life. He has recently lost his mother in a car accident and lives together with his father, depressed and lazy and with his grandmother. Everything changes when in his house appears a strange man with long hair who loves rock music and has all kinds of tattoos on his body. He comes home to wash the laundry and even threatens him that he will kill his the family if he don't let him live there. How has no choice TJ must be agreed. The child is having trouble at school and he is always bullied by a student who did not leave him in peace and taunting him whenever given the opportunity. In his life appears a girl who works at the supermarket and who will save him one day from the hands of the guy who wants to beat him. But Hesher will make TJ to have a bad opinion about her but it will save him once from the hands of the bully.I don't think this movie has a great message because we see a child cursing and it's talking disrespectful with his dad, leave home and comes back when he wants without providing any explanation of where he was and what he did. Or how it's used to threaten a man much older than him and he's aware that he can't put up with him.I honestly say that I hate this kid, in some sequences he looks like Linda Blair from The Exorcist but if I am thinking better I think he would need an exorcism.