Loser (film)

Loser
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAmy Heckerling
Written byAmy Heckerling
Produced by
StarringJason Biggs
Mena Suvari
Greg Kinnear
CinematographyRob Hahn
Edited byDebra Chiate
Music byDavid Kitay
Production
companies
Columbia Pictures
Branti Film Productions
Cockamamie
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • July 21, 2000 (2000-07-21)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million
Box office$18.4 million

Loser is a 2000 American teen romantic comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling. Starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear, it is about a fish-out-of-water college student (Biggs) who falls for a classmate (Suvari), unaware she is in a relationship with their English teacher (Kinnear). The film, Heckerling's first after 1995's Clueless and inspired by the 1960 film The Apartment, was a box-office failure and received negative reviews.