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The Big Lebowski

4.2 out of 5 stars 5,897 customer reviews

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After the tight plotting and quirky intensity of Fargo, this casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen (Ethan and Joel) brothers seems like a bit of a lark, and the result was a box-office disappointment. The good news is,

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After the tight plotting and quirky intensity of Fargo, this casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen (Ethan and Joel) brothers seems like a bit of a lark, and the result was a box-office disappointment. The good news is, The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie, and its lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and getting stoned? And where else could you find a hairnetted Latino bowler named Jesus (John Turturro) who sports dazzling purple footgear, or an erotic artist (Julianne Moore) whose creativity consists of covering her naked body in paint, flying through the air in a leather harness, and splatting herself against a giant canvas? Who else but the Coens would think of showing you a camera view from inside the holes of a bowling ball, or an elaborate Busby Berkely-styled musical dream sequence involving a Viking goddess and giant bowling pins? The plot--which finds Lebowski involved in a kidnapping scheme after he's mistaken for a rich guy with the same name--is almost beside the point. What counts here is a steady cascade of hilarious dialogue, great work from Coen regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, and the kind of cinematic ingenuity that puts the Coens in a class all their own. Be sure to watch with snacks in hand, because The Big Lebowski might give you a giddy case of the munchies. --Jeff Shannon


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  • Exclusive 30 minute interview with Ethan Coen and Joel Coen about the making of the movie

Product Details

  • Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston
  • Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Writers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Producers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Eric Fellner, John Cameron
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
    R
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  • Studio: Polygram USA Video
  • DVD Release Date: October 27, 1998
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5,897 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305165912
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,343 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Big Lebowski" on IMDb

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By Just Dude on April 20, 2016
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They call me dude I've been called dude probably good ten or fifteen years before that movie came out and I've loved it every time I watched it it's funnier than hell
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The Fabulous Cohen Boys give Jeff Bridges the role of a lifetime as The Dude (or His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino, if you're not into that whole brevity thing), a slobbish pothead bowler who reluctantly gets hired as courier in a millionaire's wife kidnaping. In true Marlowesque fashion, while doing the job he encounters several strange characters, including nymphos, heiresses, pimps, cholos, nazis, nihilists, walkiries, yes-men, cowboys, gangsters, cops, private eyes, Vietnam vets, conceptual artists, chorus girls, dead guys, and a Johnson-eating marmot! I had to see it twice, for I was laughing so hard to catch it all the first time! Great all-star cast to boot! Don't miss it!
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Jeff Bridges slacks like no other! John Goodman is Carl, a crazy-ass, funny, bipolar megalomaniac that is always making himself feel like someone important, taking charge of the Duder's uninvited, misguided adventures. This plunges the Dude in even deeper and darker trouble than even he deserves, when Nigelist's mistake Bridges for the prominent, wealthy, philanthropist, that share identical names; Jeffery Labowski! But Bridges keeps drinking Carl's Krazy Koolaide, regretting his militant bowling buddy's reckless involvement, every time. The third-wheel, in this trio of lost, California-dreaming, lucky losers, is Steve Buscemi. He plays Donnie, a lonely but lovable bowling Buddy, who is continually the target of Carl's lambasting, "SHUT THE F*** UP, DONNIE!", every time Donnie tries to add to the trio's conversations; which are usually an exchange of hilariously opposing views of mindless, meandering intercourse of the current state of affairs. This twisted, but totally hilarious, case of mistaken identity, written by one Cohen brother and directed by the other, is CLASSIC COHEN BROTHER'S, bust yer gut laughing fare! Filmed, IMHO, with trademark Cohen Brother's quirky, dark, contrasting, film noire style moodiness, intertwined with the ever-changing, Cohen Brother like camera angles, usually shot from first-person point of view, that the Cohen Brother's are now famous for! I suppose, being biased as I am (I love everyone of their movies) influence my review of their efforts. But, you can't argue against the pile of awards, including those gold, statuesque ones, they have amassed since Blood Simple came out, many moons ago?
There are too many other, very talented, as well as famous, actors/actresses in Labowski. I also love Jeff Bridges. Always have, always will!
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Be cool, watch this movie. Afterwards ask Yourself if you have any regrets for your watching it.

To understand the sense of what now follows requires you watch the movie.

Of course The Dude abides. A bigger Lebowski is to be had in the other. Bunny Lebowski's presence is the catalyst for the action, whose actions merely spoken of in the story coincidentally brings the two (or maybe it's three...no it's four) Lebowskis together. Another Lebowski, the daughter of the bigger Lebowski, regards The Dude (and it's The Dude and not just Dude) for what ultimately only his gender, and his social-economic situation, can provide her. She values The Dude for what he can donate.

The Big Lebowski's story chronicles The Dude's experience in a world all so familiar yet all so unlike his own. His misadventures might be regarded his ventures into and through an inconsequential world (an underworld) from which he exits the same condition as he entered. For The Dude accepts both worlds, for The Dude abides. In either world The Dude seems to lose nothing for he has nothing to lose except a rug located in the living room ties everything together. Ironically, its absence is the unraveling of The Dude's daily routine. In short order The Dude obtains another rug to replace the other. All things measure and weigh equally for The Dude. Hence, in life The Dude seems to find a sweet-spot of things equaling out for him.

It's hard to say this movie is great because of the Cohen brother's talent or that of Jeff Bridges. Without a doubt both the Cohen's talent and Bridges is the reason for this movie to be ironically American. Besides, undoubtedly The Bid Lebowski is one of the best American ( or even foreign) made cinemas to date, maybe for ever.

To not see The Bid Lebowski is to remain ignorant of one of the many prominent cultural icons of our day.
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Funniest movie I've ever seen. Endlessly quotable, and works on different levels. On the surface it is an old fashioned Raymond Chandler crime story, updated for the slacker 90s, but it is also a brilliant take on Nietzsche's "Last Man" (the Dude, played with stony casualness by Jeff Bridges) who tries his best to not be involved, to not care, and to not participate in life. But his buddy Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), a damaged Vietnam veteran, isn't having it. When bowling league compatriot Smokey (Jimmie Dale Gilmore) crosses the line during league play, Walter goes ballistic and pulls a gun. "Smokey this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules." And when Walter learns that the guys who stole the Dude's rug--the film's inciting incident--are nihilists, the game is really on. "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." One of my favorite aspects of the plot is that we never do find out where the Dude's rug is. It doesn't matter.
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