

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.
Acting
Jeff Bridges IS The Dude — career-defining laziness
Writing
Coen brothers dialogue that somehow makes 'dude' Shakespearean
Direction
Dream sequences that out-weird most actual nightmares

Director
Joel Coen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeff Bridges' wardrobe was mostly his own clothes — he showed up to set looking like that.
The Dude is loosely based on real L.A. slacker Jeff Dowd, who helped distribute the Coens' first film and actually drank White Russians.
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