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"The Big Lebowski" is a 1998 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows an unemployed bowling enthusiast mistaken for a millionaire with the same nickname, leading him into a bizarre kidnapping scheme. The film has become a cult classic known for its quirky characters, absurdist humor, and distinctive dialogue.
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Film · TMDB
7.8Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as The Dude
- John Goodman as Walter Sobchak
- Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski
- Steve Buscemi as Donny
- David Huddleston as The Big Lebowski
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt
Themes
- vietnam veteran
- white russian
- bowling
- carpet
- nihilism
- heart attack
- kidnapping
- lsd
- marijuana
- los angeles, california
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
911,908 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
71/100
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 7 wins & 18 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- film noir
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- Spanish
- Main subject
- slacker
- Director
- Ethan Coen
- Screenwriter
- Ethan Coen
- Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Producer
- Coen brothers
- Production company
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Roger Deakins
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 117
- FilmAffinity ID
- 237285
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- Commons category
- The Big Lebowski
- title
- The Big Lebowski
- narrator
- Sam Elliott
- distributed by
- Microsoft Store
- box office
- 46000000
- capital cost
- 15000000
- set in period
- 1991
- costume designer
- Mary Zophres
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- has spin-off
- The Jesus Rolls
- set in environment
- theatre building
- review score
- 71/100
- topic's main category
- Category:The Big Lebowski
- has characteristic
- cult film
- Lemmy instance URL
- lebowski.social
- publication date
- 1998-03-19
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Encyclopedic overview
The Big Lebowski (/ləˈbaʊski/) is a 1998 neo-noir crime comedy film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro. It follows the life of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler who is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, and becomes embroiled in a kidnapping and ransom scheme focused on a millionaire who shares his name.
The film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Joel Coen said, "We wanted to do a Chandler kind of story—how it moves episodically and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant." The score is by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers.
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