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Title: Loser (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jason Biggs | ... | Paul Tannek | |
| Mena Suvari | ... | Dora Diamond | |
| Zak Orth | ... | Adam | |
| Thomas Sadoski | ... | Chris (as Tom Sadoski) | |
| Jimmi Simpson | ... | Noah | |
| Greg Kinnear | ... | Prof. Edward Alcott | |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... | Dad | |
| Twink Caplan | ... | Gena | |
| Bobby Slayton | ... | Sal | |
| Robert Miano | ... | Victor | |
| Mollie Heckerling | ... | Annie (as Mollee Israel) | |
| Colleen Camp | ... | Homeless Woman | |
| Andy Dick | ... | Another City Worker | |
| Steven Wright | ... | Panty Hose Customer | |
| Brian Backer | ... | Doctor | |
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 <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Rented this as the freebie along with Amelie, and was stunned to discover some 15 minutes in that I was watching the most wholesale refilming of one my all time favourite movies, as Loser, transposed "The Apartment" to teenflickville. Amy Heckerling's previous reworking of classic material i.e "Emma" into the very fun "Clueless", at least had deftness of touch, sureity of footing and genuinely funny moments, along with a public acknowledgment that she was tinkering with someone elses work. Maybe she was testing out the movie going public and critics to see how knowledgeable we were or maybe she was just keeping her eye down, but it stuns me that I don't recall ever seeing in the (mostly bad) reviews I've seen of this that anyone ever brought up the obvious lift of Billy Wilder's entire movie, right down to the 3 manipulative weasly co-workers of Jack Lemmon turned into 3 manipulative weasly roomies of Jason Biggs.
Entire scenes are just reworded and refilmed, with no real spin or new take. Biggs and Suvari, while sweet and a hell of a lot better than a lot of their teen compatriots, are no Lemmon and McLaine, Greg Kinnear just doesn't have the oily charm of Fred MacMurray's original, and the ending doesn't have anything like the understated impact of the Wilder original.
Not surprised it bombed, because it's too flacid (the transposition to college life doesn't work) it doesn't work as an original, it doesn't work as a tribute (due to no new insight) and it doesn't work as a remake (class always wins out over youth). Rent the original, sit back and enjoy.