Loser | 
| Director: Amy Heckerling
Actors: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 25012
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D05068D
ISBN: 0767851307
UPC: 043396050686
EAN: 9780767851305
ASIN: B00003CXK7
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: December 19, 2000
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Product Description
A young man starts college in New York and is miserable with no girlfriend and three roommates who taunt him. But then he meets a kindred spirit with whom he starts to fall in love.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
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 cliches 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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 84 more reviews...
 Loser DVD April 21, 2009
rdmom
Terrific movie! This movie is old and out of circulation, but Amazon had it in stock and at at a great price.
 NOT WHAT I EXPECTED....LOSER IS DARK BELOW THE SURFACE! March 8, 2009
! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had never heard of this film before now, but looking at the cast credits figure it was worth checking out. 'Loser' is far less the misfit school comedy I expected and more of a romantic comedy with a dark undertone. The film really doesn't play up the belly laughs, a more mean spirited tone to the usual high-jinks. Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari deliver more 3 dimensional characters than most films of this nature. This slightly twisted love story is worth a look.
One of my favorite movies... December 27, 2008
KHLS97 (Chicagoland, IL)
I am not sure why this movie didn't get that many stars. I think it's great! It is definitely a feel-good flick, one that will lift you up whenever you are feeling blue. It's cute, it's funny, and the actors are great. Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari were really popular actors back in the late 90's, and they are so great together in this film. Don't miss out, give it a chance!
I'm a Loser, Baby! January 2, 2008
Mark from Minnesota (Minnesota)
I like Amy Heckerling's approach a lot. The story line in her movies really doesn't matter much, it's the characters she builds that make her movies worthwhile and deserving of repeated viewings.
I just saw this flick again a few days ago (for about the 3rd time over the years) and I noticed things about the main and supporting characters I had not seen previously. The roommates are some of the greatest parodies on college ne'er-do-wells I've ever seen. And Professor Alcott is more deliciously evil the more you watch this movie.
I went to college a long time ago, but there are elements of the bad characters that do exist I remember, thankfully not so concentrated around one poor guy, but hey movies need to compress things.
The spoiled, self-centered, immoral, rationalizing roomies are hilarious and allow me to laugh even now about some of the stupid attitudes & affectations the "in crowd" had when I was in school. Their desperate clinging to the latest "cool" thing is very well done... look carefully at how glammed out these idiots are and think of how much time and effort some people spend trying to be hip and it just ends up making them look like complete a-holes to pretty much everyone including the people they are trying to impress.
So anyway, don't watch Amy Heckerling's movies for story or plot. Watch for the memorable characters (Spicoli, Cher, Professor Alcott, etc) and try not to act like them in real life or at least use them for comic relief when you encounter some their traits in others.
 "Dust"??? January 25, 2006
L Gontzes (Athens, Greece)
Loser brings to the screen the story of a college freshman who does not fit in well with his peers nor with the city of NY as a whole.
Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari carry out their roles well, though by no means are these their best performances.
The major setbacks are in relation to:
1) Jason Biggs not portraying his character as being a "loser," as much as an average guy. Actually, he seemed to be the only "normal" one in the movie!
2) Mena Suvari looked like she is 14 years old and a student at junior high let alone college.
3) Greg Kinnear's (annoying) character OVERDOING it in trying to be conceded and obnoxious (it's a bit much).
4) The poor choice of an actor to play "Noah" who is not all man, if you catch my drift... Any particular reason for that?
5) The other two guys were just not interesting at all nor were they good actors, and all three of them were actually quite sad as opposed to "cool."
The setting, the acting, the plot and the humor are average, while the dialogues and the script are rather weak.
In a nutshell, it's probably not a movie you would want to add to your collection, but it will provide for an evening's entertainment, and that's about it. No masterpiece here.
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