![]() ![]() Enraged, the car's real owner destroys the Dude's car in retaliation, believing it to be Walter's. To intimidate Larry, Walter smashes a sports car that he believes the teenager purchased with the stolen money. Walter and the Dude drive to Larry's house and interrogate him, but cannot get any information out of him. While retrieving the car, he notices that the briefcase is missing and finds a piece of homework belonging to teenager Larry Sellers. The Dude receives a call from the police telling him that his car has been found and taken to an impound lot. Maude asks the Dude to help recover the money, which her father illegally withdrew from the family's charity foundation. The Dude is confronted by Lebowski, who has an envelope from the kidnappers containing a severed toe, supposedly Bunny's. The plan partly succeeds, as the kidnappers leave with Walter's bag, and he and The Dude return to the bowling alley, leaving the briefcase of money in the car trunk. Convinced that the kidnap was a ruse by Bunny, Walter schemes to keep the money for the Dude and himself, substituting it with a bag of his dirty laundry. The kidnappers arrange to collect the ransom. That night, another group of thugs ambush the Dude, taking his replacement rug on behalf of Lebowski's daughter Maude, who has a sentimental attachment to it. Soon afterwards, Bunny is apparently kidnapped, and Lebowski hires The Dude to deliver the ransom money, one million dollars. Outside, he meets Bunny, Lebowski's trophy wife, and her German nihilist friend Uli. Lebowski refuses, but the Dude tricks his assistant Brandt into letting him take a similar rug from the mansion. One enforcer urinates on the Dude's rug before the two realize that they have the wrong man and leave.Ĭonsulting his bowling partners, Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak and fall guy Donny Kerabatsos, the Dude visits wealthy philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski ("the big Lebowski"), requesting compensation for the rug. In 1991, slacker and avid bowler Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is attacked in his Los Angeles home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, to whom a different Jeffrey Lebowski's wife owes money. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ![]() Reviews have since become largely positive, and the film has become a cult favorite, noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack. The Big Lebowski received mixed reviews at the time of its release. The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers. ![]() Joel Coen stated, "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 film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Sam Elliott, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito, and Ben Gazzara also appear in supporting roles. The plan goes awry when the Dude's friend, Walter Sobchak ( John Goodman), schemes to keep the ransom money for the Dude and himself. The millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is kidnapped, and millionaire Lebowski commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, then learns that a millionaire, also named Jeffrey Lebowski ( David Huddleston), was the intended victim. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. The Big Lebowski ( / l ə ˈ b aʊ s k i/) is a 1998 independent crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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