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Loser (2000)

★ 5.4 · 478 ratings on TMDB

Dare to be different.

Loser poster★ 5.4

On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.

DirectorAmy Heckerling
CastBobby Slayton, Dan Aykroyd, Greg Kinnear, Jason Biggs, Jimmi Simpson, Mena Suvari
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Loser keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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