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The Loser [Region 2]

starring: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson
directed by: Amy Heckerling

: The Loser [Region 2]
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035822077133
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 228817
Theatrical Release Date: July 21, 2000



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Amazon.com:
Writer-director Amy Heckerling has a way with teen comedies, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Clueless and now Loser. She manages to take the clichés of life in school and spin them into cinematic gold. Part of her secret is that she genuinely seems to respect all of her characters, even the unsavory ones. In Loser, Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs from American Pie) is a farm-town boy who's gotten himself a scholarship to a fancy Manhattan college. He's worried that he's not going to fit in with the sophisticated city crowd. Well, he's right to worry. He doesn't fit in, which his three dorm-mates are quick to remind him. The only person he can talk to is Dora (Mena Suvari from American Beauty), a cocktail waitress-student who's having an affair with a pretentious lit teacher (Greg Kinnear).

Biggs is great in this movie, the perfect straight man, setting up jokes that wouldn't work without his reactions to them. In fact, the whole movie is so well-cast--Suvari is charming, Kinnear is entertainingly smug, the three dorm-mates are fun to dislike--that the actors, working in tandem with Heckerling, give a life to characters that in less talented hands would have been revealed as over-determined and exaggerated. Pardon the blurb, but it's true: Loser is a winner.--Andy Spletzer



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of my favorite movies...
I am not sure why this movie didn't get that many stars. I think it's great! It is definitely a ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - I'm a Loser, Baby!
I like Amy Heckerling's approach a lot. The story line in her movies really doesn't matter much, ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - "Dust"???
Loser brings to the screen the story of a college freshman who does not fit in well with his peers ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Mildly Entertaining- Good Chemistry Between Biggs and Suvari
Although "Loser" is a solid effort and is generally enjoyable, it was certainly not what director Amy ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Cute remake of The Apartment
I caught this movie by accident at a neighborhood theater, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that ... Read More

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