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The Big Lebowski (1998) -- "Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Ethan Coen (written by) &
Joel Coen (written by)
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Release Date:
6 March 1998 (USA) more
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They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right. more
Plot:
"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
Coen brothers unabashedly out of control! A plethora of fun! more (846 total)

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MPAA:
Rated R for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality and brief violence.
Runtime:
117 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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The Dude drinks nine White Russians during the course of the movie. (He drops one of them at Jackie Treehorn's mansion.) more
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Revealing mistakes: In the scene inside the bowling alley, right after the failed money transfer at the bridge, the two bowlers bowling in the lane right next to Walter and Dude both have one dark shoe and one light shoe on. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
The Stranger: [voiceover] Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - there's a name no man would self-apply where I come from...
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References The Fisher King (1991) more
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Walking Song more

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108 out of 138 people found the following comment useful.
Coen brothers unabashedly out of control! A plethora of fun!, 17 August 1998
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Author: Ash-37 from Bethlehem, PA

The Coen brothers are up there with my very favorite filmmakers (Scorsese, Kubrick, Carpenter). I am very fond of their work. Throughout their irreverent career, they have explored different subjects and themes. Their best stories evolve from kidnapping schemes in films like "Raising Arizona " and "Fargo", one of my very favorites. I thought that film was fervently free. I was so ever wrong. It's as if the Coen Brothers have celebrated their complete breakthrough success (Academy Award winners), and now are willing to do whatever they please. "The Big Lebowski" is a film so meandering, so wonderfully novel, that I found myself missing the many other sporadic jokes as I was heaving from laughter. The film is basically about mistaken identity, eccentric characters, and a soiled rug. This film extols the bowler, the allies, even the pins. We experience an actual bowling ball POV, as the Dude (Jeff Bridges) hallucinates. This film has nihilists, feminists, millionares, paedophiles, drugged out hippies, underachieving students, incompetent criminals, pornographers and 'Nam veterans. This movie is open to anything , anything... Some people are turned off by absurd looniness, because it's so grandiosely different. Yet who couldn't chuckle, if not explode, when a bowler dressed in a tight purple suit licks a bowling ball's finger hole, and the camera pans down to reveal his name as Jesus! I will disclose no more, but urgently recommend you to traverse to your nearest video abode and rent this true escapists' feature. Abandon all solemn inhibitons, though! One can not keep a straight face whilst watching.

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