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Loser [DVD] [2000]
enlarge	Director: Amy Heckerling Actors: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £0.68 as of 22/11/2009 06:59 GMT details You Save: £12.31 (95%) New (22) Used (31) from £0.67 Seller: fu5ion Rating: 9 reviews Sales Rank: 25878 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Languages: Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), German (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 91 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5035822077133 ASIN: B00005956P Theatrical Release Date: July 21, 2000 Release Date: May 7, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Writer-director of ILoser/I, Amy Heckerling, has a way with teen comedies, from IFast Times at Ridgemont High/I to IClueless/I. 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 ILoser/I, Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs from IAmerican Pie/I) 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 IAmerican Beauty/I), a cocktail waitress-student who's having an affair with a pretentious lit teacher (Greg Kinnear). p 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: ILoser/I is a winner.--IAndy Spletzer, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next » Quality hokum. August 12, 2003 Clement Wether (Shifting between places, periodically) 4 out of 6 found this review helpful 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.pWhich 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!!pUh-huh. Uh-huh. Loser, who's a Loser? April 26, 2003 3 out of 5 found this review helpful 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 You'd Be A Loser To Not Give This Film A Try! August 1, 2004 no1filmaddict (UK) 4 out of 4 found this review helpful 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.pWhen 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. pHowever 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. brDuring 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.pJason 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.pOn 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.pOverall '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. Mena Suvari, mmmmm..... March 13, 2001 jiaklokai@yahoo.co.uk (Swindon, UK) 3 out of 5 found this review helpful The film that spawned the Wheatus hit - 'Teenage dirtbag'.pBut it's more than that! Fresh from 'American Pie' where they had little screen time together, Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari return to comedy - only this time the emphasis is on sweet romance.pBiggs plays a niave young student, who gets a scholarship to a big city university. He is picked on by his lecturers and his room mates, but in all the chaos he meets Suvari - a gorgeous, post-grunge rock chick with a big heart but lots of defences. She is similarly used and abused, but she's a little more wary of the world.pTogether they begin to realise that life can be as good as they secretly hope. It's a lovely film, usually I found myself very wary of these films - and find at least one of the two lovers to be weak, sickening or just plain dull. Buth both Suvari and Biggs produce convincing performances and are a joy to behold.pA 21st Century Bogart and Bacall maybe? On screen at least!pBuy it, watch it, love it! You won't be disappointed. Fun and predictable April 10, 2001 1 out of 3 found this review helpful 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. Then he meets Dora (Mena Suvari), a grunge chick who is actually nice to him on first meeting, unlike anyone else, and immediately falls for her. However, if his roomates don't get in the way of his romance, Dora's boyfriend will.pThis was a great, predictable American college movie that I knew I would like as it is directed by Amy Heckerling who directed Clueless - and it spawned Wheatus's great tune Teenage Dirtbag. Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next »

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