The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – ‘Hesher’ gives mourning the finger

If Joseph Gordon-Levitt was interested in keeping the dreaded typecast at bay after a few similar nice guy roles, he’s done so shockingly as the titular heavy metal ne’er-do-well in Hesher, a new indie drama out now on DVD. His co-star, Natalie Portman, who is the producer and has made Hesher the second feature film under her own Handsomecharlie shingle, also plays severely against type as a young check out girl, all meek and gangly behind thick librarian glasses. In the same vein, Rainn Wilson displays none of the lunacy or boisterous acumen that bubbles out in quirky nerdgasms as Dwight K. Shrute, in his role of a depressive widower at the top of Hesher’s maladjusted heap. Read more…