The Big Lebowski (1998) movie poster

The Big Lebowski (1998)

"Times like these call for a Big Lebowski."
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 75%
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Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
R
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (12,004 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
71

Cast

Jeff Bridges as The Dude · 73% avg
John Goodman as Walter Sobchak · 72% avg
Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski · 69% avg
Steve Buscemi as Donny · 71% avg
David Huddleston as The Big Lebowski · 77% avg
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt · 77% avg
Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski · 67% avg
Philip Moon as Treehorn Thug

Is The Big Lebowski good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 75%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#346 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#22 / 116 · 1998
Rank among its director's films
#4 / 19 · Joel Coen

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 American comedy film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, an unemployed, bowling-obsessed slacker in early 1990s Los Angeles whose only ambitions involve White Russians, recreational marijuana, and qualifying for the next round of his bowling league. When two thugs break into The Dude's apartment and urinate on his rug, mistaking him for a millionaire of the same name, The Dude seeks compensation from the real Lebowski and is drawn into an absurdist kidnapping plot involving nihilists, pornographers, avant-garde artists, a private detective, and a severed toe.

The Big Lebowski was a modest commercial performer upon release, earning $46 million worldwide on a $15 million budget, but it became one of the most successful cult films in history through home video and midnight screenings. The Dude, with his bathrobe, sunglasses, and philosophical passivity, became a countercultural icon who spawned an annual "Lebowski Fest" convention and even a quasi-religion called Dudeism with over 600,000 ordained ministers. John Goodman's performance as Walter Sobchak, a volatile Vietnam veteran who connects everything to his war experience, was an equally iconic creation.

The Coen Brothers' labyrinthine plot, which deliberately goes nowhere and resolves nothing, was a parody of Raymond Chandler detective fiction that doubled as a meditation on how little control anyone has over the chaos of existence.

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The word "Fuck," "Man," or "Dude" is said about every 12 seconds in the Big Lebowski (1998)
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