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Loser | Year: 2000 Classification: Comedy Country: USA Language: English Directed: - Amy Heckerling Actors/Actresses: - Jason Biggs as Paul Tannek - Mena Suvari as Dora Diamond - Peta Wilson A geek, a freak, and a college professor. Now, having a terrible, terrible guilty pleasure that is the "teen movie" genre, I am normally a rave reviewer of these films. I did not like this movie. I liked the cast, I liked the idea, but I just couldn't get in to the movie. Jason Biggs plays "Paul Tannek," a transplant from the sticks, who is awkward in his New York City surroundings. Mena Suvari plays "Dora Diamond," the "independent thinker" who is having an affair with the Greg Kinnear character, Professor Alcott. This is the preverbal "root for the little guy" kind of film. Paul Tannek is a little geek falls in love with the girl, Dora, who is already taken. And worse yet, the girl is love with the big, mean professor, who doesn't really care about her. Paul does his best to steer the girl away from the professor, while not trying to show how sleazy the professor really is. He plays this wonderfully chivalrous guy, who is completely annoying, not very funny, and downright boring. Boredom was probably the main downfall to this movie. There was a pretty hefty lack of plot. Where you would expect more conflict to begin, it did not. Where there should have been drama, there was not. . . Where there was supposed to be a movie, there was not. There was a great deal of potential in this movie, as the cast was strong, but the movie fell flat. epc Cute and entertaining I rented this movie on a snowy day along with several other films and was pleasantly surprised. I was looking for something light and fun and that is exactly what I got. Jason Biggs, who played the charming but goofy lead in American Pie, is Paul a guy who moves from the mid-west to New York City to go to College and is immeadiately overwhelmed by "city" life. His roomates are horrible and only add to his inability to fit in. In class Paul meets Dora, Mena Suvari - who was also in American Pie as well as American Beauty. As Paul gets to know Dora he begins to see that life in the big city is not all bad. Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear were all good in this movie - the plot was not as strong as most of Amy Heckerling's past high school type comedy's such as Fast Time or Clueless but this film was still cute. Loser would make a cute date film or would be good when you are looking for something light. Hilarious I have to say this is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Buy Loser at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Loser Search with the Priority Search Engine on Loser This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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