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Release year: 2000

Storyline

A college student, branded a loser by his roommates and booted from the dorm, falls in love with a coed who has eyes for their condescending professor.

Top credits

Directors

Amy Heckerling

Writers

Amy Heckerling

Cast

Jason Biggs — Paul Tannek
Mena Suvari — Dora Diamond
Zak Orth — Adam
Thomas Sadoski — Chris

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Did you know

• In a February 2017 feature at The Ringer that interviewed Amy Heckerling and wrote about her entire career, Heckerling said that the main reason this film failed is that the studio insisted it be delivered as a PG-13 film even though it was intended by everyone else, from Heckerling to the since-departed studio executives who'd greenlit production, as an R-rated comedy. The studio said that R-rated comedies weren't welcomed by enough audiences and forced the film to be watered down considerably. Heckerling said the movie failed because audiences could tell it was not doing what it was intended to do.

• The scene featuring David Spade was filmed in Toronto's first specialty video store Revue Video. Since the store specializes in films (Foreign Language and Classics) other than the ones feature in the scene, the whole look of the store had to be changed.

• The music video of the song "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus features the characters of this film, as the song features on the movie's soundtrack. Unlike the movie, the music video is set at a high school and Dora dates a bully jock and not a sleazy college professor.