My favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt role to-date: Hesher (2011), title character. Also starring Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson. Hesher is a badass stoner anarchist with a not-so-positive, yet not-so-negative approach to positive messages for a young 13-year-old kid whom Hesher has befriended. The kid, TJ, is coping with the recent tragic loss of his mother and the spiraling depression his father (Rainn Wilson) is going through.
