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  • Actors: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson
  • Directors: Amy Heckerling
  • Writers: Amy Heckerling
  • Producers: Twink Caplan, Amy Heckerling, John M. Eckert
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 7 May 2001
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005956P
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,703 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Writer-director of Loser, Amy Heckerling, has a way with teen comedies, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Clueless. 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 unsavoury 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, as 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 film, the perfect straight man, setting up jokes that wouldn't work without his reactions to them. In fact, the whole film 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 which, 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, Amazon.com

Video Description
DVD Special Features:

Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
Music Video of No. 1 Hit Single by Wheatus, "Teenage Dirtbag"
International Trailer
Filmographies
Dolby Digital 5.1
1.18:1 enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs
Subtitle: English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You'd Be A Loser To Not Give This Film A Try!, 1 Aug 2004
By no1filmaddict (UK) - See all my reviews
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Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of 'Loser' is a real star when it comes to teen movies, with films like 'Clueless' and 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' as evidence of this. She seems to be able to take any high school stereotype or cliché and turn it into a really fun and entertaining film.

When Paul Tannek gets a scholarship at a college in New York he is soon branded a complete loser on acount of him wearing one of the most stupidest hats in the world, having the nerdiest hair cut ever, and going round with about fifty textbooks under his arm. He is constantly pushed around by his room mates and he is forced to move into an animal hospital where theyt have a spare room along with a job.

However when they find out that he has a whole building all to himself, his former room mates persuade him into throwing ahuge party there with plenty of boose, and of course drugs. Its there that Paul meets a really fit girl called Dora who has had her drink spiked and is lying unconcious in his bathroom. Being a sensible lad, he proceeds to take her to hospital where she is treated, and he then takes her back home with him, where she stays to recouporate for a few days.
During her stay, Paul finds out that she is in fact having a secret affair with one of the college proffessors and realises that his chance of getting with her are very small, although she has other ideas.

Jason Biggs, who starred in the hugely succsessful movie 'American Pie', is excelent in his role as the country nerd who moves to the big city and trys to fit in, while the lovely Mena Suvari is again excelent and charming in her role as the gorgous student who is seeing her proffessor. The rest of the cast are also very well picked from Paul's three scheming room mates, to the smug and extreamly arrogant college proffessor.

On the DVD itself there are a number of nice extras that make it that little bit more worth buying. Firstly there are a few behind the scenes featurettes which show how the film was made etc. Secondly there is the music video for the soundtrack to this film 'Teenage Dirtbag', which was a big hit in 2000 and this video was the actual video released with the single, with the same characters as in this film. Thirdly there is a trailer which is good, and finally a number of filmographies from some members of the cast, and the director herself.

Overall 'Loser' is a really fun and entertaining film which although slightly follows in the footsteps of most other teen movies, still manages to be great all round and should satisfy most film fans. So if you fancy a laugh and a film with a really pretty girl as one ofthe main characters, then this is for you.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality hokum., 12 Aug 2003
By Clement Wether (Shifting between places, periodically) - See all my reviews
Perfect paint by numbers stuff - predictable plot, lame romance [happy ending, naturally ... ooops, don't want to give the end away] and the bad guys (all of them) get their comeuppance in a manner apt to the social crime they have committed (cf. the coda - really quite cruel). Plus a slightly intrusive contemporary soundtrack that does a lot of the narrative work, not that too much is needed and demonstrates quite how weedy most American raawwk actually is. Meanwhile the cast look decorative.

Which is to say - exactly what you want your teencom to do. Make you feel good, that love ain't just an idle dream, that there is hope, that being plain (if not ugly) is ALRIGHT!! and there's still a gal/guy out there for ya! And, wouldn't you know it, s/he's gorgeous!!

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loser, who's a Loser?, 26 April 2003
As teen films go this one go's above and beyond.It is a great film that has been casted perfectley. You can relate to the film and real life, only diffrence being, Paul is lucky enough to find someone who is willing to actually care about him. A rare trate in young people. To care about someone is one thing to find someon who cares back is another. This film puts across how people are able to find people that suit them, despite the odds and their background
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny
Really funny movie. A good cast and some hilarious moments. If you're into American Pie, you'll dig this.
Published 18 months ago by Mr L Wakehurst

3.0 out of 5 stars Feel good movie
I think personally this movie is slow to start, taking us to meet Paul's (Jason Biggs) family, seemed boring, and unnessary. I think it could have started alot better. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2002 by lollie2001scot@yahoo.co.uk

2.0 out of 5 stars A bit of Comedy is what makes this film
This film is a really weak film. The direction is not all that good. This film lacks in a lot of things. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2001 by hss10@aol.com

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny and unpredictable
This is a good basic entertaining comedy about a Couple of losers who fall in love upon a very trikey winding path through american education, its just right if you want a laugh... Read more
Published on 11 May 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and predictable
Jason Biggs plays the naive but sweet student just starting college in New York City, with no style! He is misunderstood by his spoilt brats of roomates and is all alone. Read more
Published on 10 April 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Mena Suvari, mmmmm.....
The film that spawned the Wheatus hit - 'Teenage dirtbag'.

But it's more than that! Fresh from 'American Pie' where they had little screen time together, Jason Biggs and Mena... Read more

Published on 13 Mar 2001 by jiaklokai@yahoo.co.uk

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