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
Jeff Bridges
The Dude
John Goodman
Walter Sobchak
Julianne Moore
Maude Lebowski
Steve Buscemi
Donny
David Huddleston
The Big Lebowski
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Brandt
Tara Reid
Bunny Lebowski
Philip Moon
Treehorn Thug
Mark Pellegrino
Treehorn Thug
Peter Stormare
Nihilist
Flea
Nihilist
Torsten Voges
Nihilist
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Smokey
Jack Kehler
Dude's Landlord
John Turturro
Jesus Quintana
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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