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Title: Loser (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jason Biggs | ... | ||
| Mena Suvari | ... | ||
| Zak Orth | ... | ||
| Thomas Sadoski | ... |
Chris
(as Tom Sadoski)
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| Jimmi Simpson | ... | ||
| Greg Kinnear | ... | ||
| Dan Aykroyd | ... | ||
| Twink Caplan | ... | ||
| Bobby Slayton | ... | ||
| Robert Miano | ... | ||
| Mollie Israel | ... |
Annie
(as Mollee Israel)
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| Colleen Camp | ... | ||
| Andy Dick | ... | ||
| Steven Wright | ... | ||
| Brian Backer | ... | ||
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 City for college. To keep his scholarship, he must study hard and do well. That makes him a loser to his partying roommates who connive to kick him out of their suite. He's assigned a room in an animal hospital. In class he meets Dora, a pretty coed who needs a job to pay for school, and who's the very young lover of their sarcastic and selfish lit professor. 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 for them to become a truly lucky couple? Written by <[email protected]>
I have always been the outsider as a teenager (why do you think I have hundreds of movies on my comment list), so I can relate to this film. Not because I have gone to a college from a far off land and am not familiar with the area. But because I have always known what It's like to not always get the girl, always to be alone and to have such low self-esteem you make eeyore from Winnie the Pooh look like Richard Simmons. So I can sympathize. But saying did I like the entire movie, no. Because the main heroine (Mena Suvari) knows who is the right one in her life (her choices are the teen Jason Biggs and a married professor Greg Kinnear) and takes too long to find out who the right one is (I am not revealing who that is). While she and Biggs are likeable characters, they also make dumb choices in the dating game. Sort of like Boys and Girls which came out last month. Yet, I can reccomend this film to teen film fans, Everclear fans, or fans of writer/director/co-producer Amy Heckerling's work (she is of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless fame). Just don't go into it looking for a way to find better love. B+