Loser 2000, Rated PG-13 Columbia/Tristar Home Video

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Starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, et al. Released to DVD on December 19, 2000.

I've honestly never seen a movie like Loser before. Written and directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High), I was looking forward to some realistic and comedic teen interaction in Loser. Diverging from this path though, Heckerling delivered some of the most awkward (and strangely enjoyable) moments that the teen genre has produced. Jason Biggs stars in Loser as the titular rube, Paul Tannek. Kind, good-hearted and sincere, Paul is in no way ready to attend school in New York City. Paul's roommates are three drugged out rich kids who torment him endlessly, and the rest of his New York University classmates are disposed to ignoring him. The one bright spot in Paul's life is Dora (Mena Suvari), another freshman who is having some of the same problems that he is. Their romance is very wholesome and rather unpredictable--Dora's involvement with her professor sort of dictates that. Morbidly fascinating and truly different, I enjoyed watching Loser a lot more than the plot material would suggest.