| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | A- |
| Sexual Content: | C |
| Language: | C |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | D |
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Loser is rated PG-13: for drug content, crude sexual material and language
Cast: Jason Biggs Mena Suvari
Studio: pictures (c)2000 Columbia Pictures
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
