The Big Lebowski
10th Anniversary Edition
From the Academy Award-winning Coen Brothers comes The Big Lebowski - the hilariously quirky comedy-thriller about bowling, avant-garde art, nihilistic Austrians, and a guy named... the Dude.
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski doesn't want any drama in his life... heck, he can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug (you gotta understand, that rug really tied the room together). Now, the Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy friends to make things right and get that rug back!
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro, The Big Lebowski has become a cultural phenomenon. Now experience the outrageous fan favorite like never before in this 10th Anniversary Edition! The Dude abides...
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Serves a Purpose - Intangible360
This movie is important in so far as, if you don't like it you can rest assured that you will never like anything that the Coen brothers produce. I could almost like this movie but the indescribable Coen brothers flair just destroys any chance that this movie had.Pure Coen: Loopy, Unfathomable, Profane, Funny - CharleyJames
With The Big Lebowski, the incomparable Coen brothers are in usual fine form. This time, the producing-writing-directing brothers turn their fun-house lens on Los Angeles, wellspring of the wacky and the mythic.
We know the Coens love mythological figures - even better, myths carved from common clay. Here, they construct a plot around a dope-smoking slug named Jeff Lebowski, who insists that everyone call him 'Dude.'
Dude is dragged into the middle of a nutty kidnapping plot when he's mistaken for a big shot also named Lebowski.
The plot unwinds via every textbook image from every cowboy-private-eye-crime-buster movie ever made - moody opening shots of Los Angeles, a rich old man, a sexy wife, a predatory female, One Million Dollars (a sum that sounds capitalized each time it's uttered), shady bad guys, a shadowy swinger with a hillside lair, even a musical production number replete with Busby Berkley-style chorus girls. And sports.
Lebowski's sport is bowling, Dude's true avocation. And the bad guys aren't commies or drug runners, they're German nihilists. Of course, Dude must have a loyal sidekick - but his Dr. Watson is Walter Sobchak, a volatile Vietnam vet and converted Jew who keeps showing up at critical moments to make a thorough mess of things.
There is even a mysterious Westerner (Sam Elliott, with his impeccable cowboy moustache and campfire voice) to narrate the beginning and end of the movie. The joke is that his words may sound grand but the character he's describing couldn't be more of a loser, or the adventure more futile.
Lebowski doesn't quite equal the dizzying artistry of Fargo but it's a pure Coen experience nonetheless: Loopy, unfathomable, profane and very funny."Sometimes you eat the bear..." - fennel
"...and sometimes the bear eats you." Tight existential allegory swathed in pithy, eminently quotable mayhem, this Coen Bros. gem eats all other slacker adventure comedies for breakfast.
Jeff Bridge's white russian toting pothead caught in a mistaken identity carpet fiasco ("hey I've got a drink here"), Goodman's Vietnam vet sociopathic buddy sidekick ("Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least its an ethos"), John Turturro's perverted skintight jumper wearing bowling prima donna ("Nobody f*cks with the Jesus"), the nihilists, the toilet scene, the way the carpet really ties a room together... there is no substitute, there is no comparison, there can only be one The Big Lebowski.
"Yeah man, I got a f*ckin rash..."
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Serves a Purpose - Intangible360
This movie is important in so far as, if you don't like it you can rest assured that you will never like anything that the Coen brothers produce. I could almost like this movie but the indescribable Coen brothers flair just destroys any chance that this movie ...Pure Coen: Loopy, Unfathomable, Profane, Funny - CharleyJames
With The Big Lebowski, the incomparable Coen brothers are in usual fine form. This time, the producing-writing-directing brothers turn their fun-house lens on Los Angeles, wellspring of the wacky and the mythic.
We know the Coens love mythological ..."Sometimes you eat the bear..." - fennel
"...and sometimes the bear eats you." Tight existential allegory swathed in pithy, eminently quotable mayhem, this Coen Bros. gem eats all other slacker adventure comedies for breakfast.
Jeff Bridge's white russian toting pothead caught in a mistaken ...