DVD : The Loser [Region 2]
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4030521307711
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 233924
Theatrical Release Date: July 21, 2000
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Editorial Review:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
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!
Rating:  -
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 ... Read More
Rating: -
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 ... Read More
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Although "Loser" is a solid effort and is generally enjoyable, it was certainly not what director Amy Heckerling needed at that point in her career. After the great success of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless" she pretty much went in the director dumper with this one. Ironically the problem was not her directing but her writing. Solid production could not entirely compensate for this flawed screenplay because the flaws are in the characters themselves, they are simply not believable.
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I caught this movie by accident at a neighborhood theater, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that good old Amy Heckerling had remade one of my favorites, The Apartment, with a dash of Ridgemont High added here and there. Maybe I'm biased because I know and love both of these films, but my guess is that Loser can stand on its own. Or maybe you should do a little homework and watch the original. It can only enhance the experience.
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