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THE BIG LEBOWSKI
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 crime comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen,
starring Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is
assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire (also named
Jeffrey Lebowski) was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski’s trophy wife is kidnapped, and he
commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release; the plan goes awry when the Dude’s
friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the ransom money. Julianne Moore, Steve
Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Philip Seymour Hoffman also appear in supporting roles.
PLOT
In 1991 Los Angeles, Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a middle-aged bachelor with a penchant for cannabis
and bowling, is assaulted by two goons hired by pornographer Jackie Treehorn, demanding money owed
by the wife of another Jeffrey Lebowski (the eponymous “Big Lebowski”). Realizing they have the wrong
man, they leave after one of them urinates on the Dude’s rug.
On the advice of his bowling partners Donny Kerabatsos and Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak, the
Dude seeks compensation from the other Lebowski, a wealthy, disabled philanthropist who refuses his
request. Leaving Lebowski’s mansion, the Dude takes a valuable rug and meets Bunny, Lebowski’s young
trophy wife.
Days later, the Dude is told that Bunny has been kidnapped, and Lebowski wants the Dude to deliver the
ransom money to find out if the kidnappers are the same people who soiled his rug. The Dude informs
Walter and Donny about the kidnapping and suggests that Bunny may have staged her own kidnapping
to use the ransom money to pay off her debts; Walter is immediately convinced of this and becomes
incredulous at her greed. That night, another pair of thugs knock the Dude unconscious and take his
new rug.
The kidnappers arrange a meeting, and Walter accompanies the Dude. Still convinced that Bunny
“kidnapped herself”, he enacts a plan to give them another briefcase, containing Walter’s “dirty undies”,
so he and the Dude can keep the ransom money. To the Dude’s horror, Walter gives the kidnappers the
fake briefcase. After another game of bowling, the Dude’s car is stolen with the real briefcase inside.
Lebowski’s daughter Maude calls the Dude, explaining that she took the rug and inviting him to visit her.
She plays him a pornographic video revealing Bunny was one of Treehorn’s actresses. Confirming the
Dude’s theory that Bunny staged her own abduction, Maude asks the Dude to recover the ransom which
her father withdrew from the family’s personal foundation. Lebowski confronts the Dude, angry that
he failed to deliver the ransom, and shows him a severed toe presumed to be Bunny’s. Three German
nihilists threaten the Dude, identifying themselves as the kidnappers, however Maude says they are
friends of Bunny.
The Dude’s car is recovered by police, minus the briefcase, but inside the Dude finds the homework of a
high school student named Larry Sellers. Walter and the Dude confront Larry at his family’s home, and
Walter uses a crowbar to wreck a new sports car parked outside which he believes Larry bought with the
stolen money. The car’s real owner rushes outside and wrecks the Dude’s car in revenge, thinking it to
be Walter’s.