The Big Lebowski (DVD)

The Big Lebowski is the 1998 film from the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel. Both share the writing credits, with Joel on his own as director. The Plot Jeff' The Dude' Lebowski is an ageing hippy going about his life slumming it. He is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name as him, and his rug is defaced. Angered by this insult, Dude goes to see the real millionaire Jeff Lebowski and demands some kind of recompense. Dude accepts a job with a high pay out, and thinks this could solve matters, but it doesn;t. It only serves to complicate matters even further, as evryone is clamoring for a piece of the Dude! The Cast and ...  Read the complete review

I have to be honest I was a little disappointed with this film. Usually I like pretty much anything the Cohen brothers direct however I found this film to be a little falt and to lack the cutting edge of their other work. The main character in the film is Jeff The Dude Lebowski who is played by Jeff Bridges. The Dude is an ageing hippy sort of character whose life is spent walking around in shorts and flip flops, smoking dope, drinking beer and bowling. The film also stars John Goodman as a slightly psychotic friend to The Dude whose obsessions with bowling is actually quite funny. For me the best performance in the film is by the excellent John Turturro who ...  Read the complete review

THE BIG LEBOWSKI The Dude (Jeff Bridges) isn't married. He doesn't have a ring on his finger, enjoys leaving the toilet seat-up and pays for milk via cheque because he's your average irregular bum. From the looks of his ramshackle home, he's not a millionaire either. All of which is quite bemusing for the two clueless goons that have just flushed the Dude's head down the toilet and urinated on his rug in order to extract money to pay off his wife's gambling debts. Except the Dude doesn't have a wife. Or money! Such a case of mistaken identity leads the Dude to his namesake, Jeffrey Lebowski (the Dude's real name, not that he cares for it much) in order to ...  Read the complete review

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 film written and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen. Jeffrey Lebowski, or "The Dude" as he prefers to be called(Jeff Bridges), is a laidback, unemployed guy who only seems to have two things he loves - white russian cocktails and bowling. When he is mistaken for a millionaire of the same name (Lebowski, not "the dude"!) he gets sucked into helping the rich Lebowski deal with the kidnapping of his young trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid). The Dude's bullish friend and bowling team mate Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) decides to invite himself along and then things go from bad to worse, as The Dude has a conspiracy to ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room The Coen Brothers are known for their quirky and idiosyncratic sense of humour, and also their dark plots that plumb the depths of greed and death. The Big Lebowski is one of their best films, combining some hilariously spirited performances with a great script and typically brilliant direction from the Coens. If you were ever after a thriller about bowling, then this is the film for you! Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges, in what is arguably his best performance), is known by his friends as "The Dude". He thinks he's a lot cooler than he is, because he's actually an employed, ...  Read the complete review