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Loser, Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari (2000)
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: Loser
Is there room in Manhattan for a decent kid? Can a young woman see past a cad to true love? Paul, from rural upstate, comes to New York for college. To keep his scholarship, he must study hard. That makes him a loser to his partying roommates, who connive to have him kicked out of their suite. He's assigned a room in an animal hospital. In class he meets Dora, who's the very young lover of their sarcastic and selfish lit professor. She needs a job to pay for school. When Dora is slipped some drugs at a party, Paul nurses her back to health, and a friendship follows. For Paul, though, it's more than friendly feelings. Can they work things out and become truly lucky?
DVD Movie Rating for: Loser
3 out of 5
Movie Plot of: Loser
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
DVD Production Details of: Loser
Starring: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari
Director: Amy Heckerling
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Studio: Columbia Tri-Star
DVD Release Date: December 19, 2000
DVD Features:
Production notes
Wheatus "Teenage Dirtbag" Music Video
Making Of
Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
Cast of the movie: Loser
- Jason Biggs .... Paul Tannek
- Mena Suvari
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Dora Diamond
- Zak Orth .... Adam
- Thomas Sadoski .... Chris
- Jimmi Simpson .... Noah
- Greg Kinnear .... Professor Edward Alcott
- Dan Aykroyd .... Mr. Tanneck
- Twink Caplan .... Gena
- Robert Miano .... Victor (as Bobby Miano)
- Mollie Israel .... Annie
- Colleen Camp .... Homeless Woman
- Andy Dick .... Office Clerk
- Steven Wright .... Pantie Bar Man
- Brian Backer .... Doctor
- Meredith Scott Lynn .... Dog Loving Girl
Photo Gallery of the movie: Loser
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Loser
Reviews of the movie: Loser
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.
A Winner!
Loser is a very amusing comedy directed by Clueless director Amy Heckerling
and once again she delivers another brilliant film. Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari are both great as Paul and Dora and have some real on going chemistry.
