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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joins Hesher
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joins Hesher

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson have signed up to join Natalie Portman in Hesher, an indie comedy/drama from debutant feature director Spencer Susser.

The story sees Gordon-Levitt play Hesher, a 20-something slacker who invades the life of an awkward 13 year-old. Said teen lives with his pill-popping father (Wilson), who's trying to keep the family together after his wife's death, and his grandmother. Portman plays the supermarket check-out girl the teen falls in love with after she saves him from bullies, while Hesher himself proves a mixed influence on the boy's life.

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