Later on, TJ discovers his grandmother has collapsed and died while preparing to go out for her walk. She gets tired after taking a hit, and before she falls asleep, Hesher tells her he’ll accompany her on her morning walk. Hesher and the grandmother talk, and Hesher discovers she uses medical marijuana to manage her pain. Meanwhile, Hesher returns to TJ’s home, where TJ’s grandmother is in deteriorating health. Horrified, he yells insults at both Hesher and Nicole, as he tries to process this betrayal. He goes to her apartment to give her the money, and discovers Hesher and Nicole in the midst of a sexual encounter. Nicole later reveals to TJ that she isn’t making enough money at the store, so he decides to give her the money he’d been saving to buy back the wrecked car. TJ finds the car in the wrecking yard, and is nearly killed when the car is plucked to be crushed. The owner of the wrecking yard, also the father of the bully, refuses to sell the car to TJ, and eventually reveals it has been junked. Throughout the film, TJ makes attempts to buy back the wrecked car in which his mother died. Hesher, following TJ, eventually deduces his crush, and pushes him to ask her out or at least try and sleep with her. He starts skulking around her store, watching her from afar. She rescues him from the bully and drives him home. TJ is not charmed by Hesher’s insistence on bringing chaos to his life.ĭuring a run-in with the bully, TJ meets Nicole (Natalie Portman), a checker at a local grocery store. Later, he actually hits TJ with his van (though TJ is essentially unharmed). TJ is too slow getting into Hesher’s van, so Hesher drives off, leaving TJ to think he’s been abandoned. He gets TJ to pour gasoline in the bully’s convertible, and then lights it on fire. Hesher proceeds to “help” TJ in various ways, but not in any way that could be described as “compassionate.” In one instance, he brings TJ along to get some payback for a bully who continually tortures him. TJ’s grandmother (Piper Laurie) lives with them, and is kind and generous to all, including Hesher, not asking too many questions, other than to invite TJ on her morning walk. TJ’s father, Paul (Rainn Wilson), is too incapacitated by grief over his recently deceased wife that he does nothing much to stop him. After TJ (Devin Brochu) inadvertently calls attention to Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) living in a vacant house, Hesher follows him home and moves into his garage.
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