The Big Lebowski
Release Date: 1998 - Wide Release
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Film Genre: Comedy
Country: United States
In a film both sweeter and loopier than "Fargo," Joel and Ethan Coen and their rogues' gallery of actors explore Southern California's post-hippie, surfer-dude bowling scene. The results are irresistible, at least for audiences on the film's laid-back wavelength and in tune with its deadpan humor. With shaggy, baggy looks that belie his performance's fine comic control, Jeff Bridges plays a guy who truly deserves to be called Dude, and is by turns oblivious and indignant once a ruined rug leads him into neo-noir escapades. In a film that certainly keeps its audience guessing what might happen next (Saddam Hussein renting bowling shoes?), John Turturro takes the cake as the most fiendish of bowlers. — Janet Maslin, The New York Times