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Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) is a small town scholarship student in the big city having trouble fitting in at his college. With his hunter's cap and kind personality, Paul is an outsider among the self-anointed, sophisticated hipster crowd. As for his pot-smoking, girl chasing roommates, Paul's need to study takes a back seat to their overwhelming desire to party. Roommate Chris can only offer a floundering Paul this piece of advice: "For your own good, just try to be not so much... like you."

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In the grand tradition of teen flicks, Loser comes across as another predictable and underwritten movie with nothing new to offer.

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Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: C Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Nell Minow Common Sense Media Frustrating and annoying and tedious. A mess. Rated: 2/5 Dec 25, 2010 Full Review Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Rated: 2/5 Mar 10, 2003 Full Review Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com The intended stabs at humor fall with a thud. Rated: 2/4 Jan 7, 2010 Full Review Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Bob Grimm Sacramento News & Review Rated: 1/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Loser | Rotten Tomatoes (6) JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network Rated: 2/10 Jun 2, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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Test T I don't know why this got poor reviews. It's a decent enough story, and there's plenty of interesting characters along the way. It also has a cool music video and a happy ending. The only problem I could see was that the story is a little bit too real, and reflects badly on American society when you see how students from modest backgrounds get treated by the people exploiting them. Putting that to one side the film is ok, and perfectly watchable. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/12/23 Full Review Andre G He is exactly what the title says, he's a loser. Really funny too. Just your typical loser going through college. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/10/23 Full Review Audience Member 2.8. I think the overlooking of date raping may have not gone as well today tho Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/14/21 Full Review Audience Member A charming time capsule of the early 2000s. We've all seen the nice guy get the girl a million times before, but the character work in Loser combined with standout performances by Biggs, Suvari, and Kinnear makes the film worth watching. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review steve d appropriately titled for its unlikable script and characters. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I went with 3 stars on this movie I have seen it a few times, but I have not seen this movie in forever I so would watch again. I recommend to see this movie very cute movie about 2 teens that fall in love I seen it got pretty low scores. Nostalgia hits hard with this movie, I seen this movie at the movies on vacation I think it was Cape Cod years ago with a friend I have not seen in forever go give it some love. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Amy Heckerling Director Jason Biggs Paul Tannek Mena Suvari Dora Diamond Zak Orth Adam Thomas Sadoski Chris Jimmi Simpson Noah
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Synopsis Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) is a small town scholarship student in the big city having trouble fitting in at his college. With his hunter's cap and kind personality, Paul is an outsider among the self-anointed, sophisticated hipster crowd. As for his pot-smoking, girl chasing roommates, Paul's need to study takes a back seat to their overwhelming desire to party. Roommate Chris can only offer a floundering Paul this piece of advice: "For your own good, just try to be not so much... like you."

Director
Amy Heckerling

Producer
Amy Heckerling, Twink Caplan

Screenwriter
Amy Heckerling

Distributor
Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Production Co
Branti Film Productions, Cockamamie

Rating
PG-13 (Drug Content|Crude Sexual Material|Language)

Genre
Romance, Comedy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 21, 2000, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2012

Box Office (Gross USA)
$15.5M

Runtime
1h 35m

Sound Mix
Stereo, SDDS, DTS, Surround
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