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	The Big Lebowski
		The walls and ceiling of Big Lebowski are something else altogether, and it wasn't until almost the last scene of the film that what the Coens were getting at hit me. But, hit me it did, like a bowling ball in the solar plexus, and everything that came before suddenly made perfect sense.
		Lebowski, her father, is the old white man who wants to steal his children's heritage out from under them.
		This story isn't about the Big Lebowski." It's about the Little Lebowski, who, someday, is going to grow up to be trapped in his or her own generation, too.
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	'The Big Lebowski'
		The alleys of "The Big Lebowski" aren't shadowed or menacing, they're gleaming with varnish and alive with the satisfying crack of ball with pins.
		Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a laid-back pothead whose life is basically one long flashback, spends most of his time at the lanes with his obstreperous best friend, Walter (John Goodman), and the third member of their bowling team, Donny (Steve Buscemi).
		Lebowski's trophy wife owes their boss a wad of dough, but the toughs attempt to extract the money from the Dude.
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	The Big Lebowski
		In the film The Dude, Jeff Lebowski (played by Jeff Bridges), has his home invaded and his rug urinated upon by thugs looking for a multi-millionaire Jeff Lebowski (David Huddleston[?]) who is disabled, according to his servant Brandt (Philip Seymour Hoffman[?]), and keeps a tidier house.
		The Big Lebowski is a cult film, in that it received mediocre or moderately positive reviews, generally, but sales were and remain slim.
		The plot is based very loosely on Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and the Humphrey Bogart film of that book, but has been modernized and revolves around marijuana and ten pin bowling[?], and makes liberal use of the Gulf War as a backdrop.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Big_Lebowski.html (516 words)

	The Best Film of 1998 - Big Lebowski, The - Epinions.com
		Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey Lebowski - an L.A. roundabout who always seems to be in his pajamas, whether he's bowling at the local lanes or smoking weed in his apartment (that's about all he does).
		Lebowski hates his name and prefers to be called "The Dude," and calls everyone else "Man," just like a hippies (apparently, he hasn't been able to get over the 1960s).
		Soon the plot becomes complicated as The Dude get mixed up in the kidnapping of The Big Lebowski's wife, as he is asked to deliver the money to the kidnappers, but his efforts are hindered when Walter decides to help him out.
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	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: The Big Lebowski
		If you were the strongarm thugs of the pornographer who lent money to Lebowski's trophy wife, you'd bust in on the wrong man. Which is where this flick kicks off, with Jeff Bridges starring as The Dude (Lebowski was his parent's name, y'see), a deadbeat who enjoys dope, Lite Beer and Bowling.
		The rug "tied the whole place together" so Dude goes to the estate of the Big Lebowski of the title, a disabled old man whose conservative values are typical Coen -- he's got a loud mouth and he's way too self important.
		Lebowski's much too young trophy wife is an (ex?) porn star and his alienated daughter, Maude (Julianne Moore) is a feminist artist of the modern school who paints in the nude.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive98/biglebowski.html (680 words)

	Big Lebowski starring Jullianna Mooore,John Goodman,Jeff Bridges,directed by Coen Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The younger Lebowski, referred to as The Dude, seeks compensation from the older Lebowski for the damage wrongly inflicted on his now piss stained rug.
		The tides turn when the older Lebowski’s wife is kidnapped and calls on the younger Lebowski to retrieve her.
		Maude Lebowski was assembled based on a mixture of the artists Carol Schneeman and Yoko Ono.
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	The Big Lebowski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Big Lebowski was directed by Joel Coen and stars Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro.
		The film is centered around the life of "The Dude," his name is Jeff Lebowski but he calls himself "The Dude." The Dude happens to have the same name another man in town who is very rich.
		The Big Lebowski centers on The Dude getting compensation for his rug that was soiled upon.
	www.murrieta.k12.ca.us /mvhs/staff/smccarthy/thebig.htm (619 words)

	The Big Lebowski (1998)
		Two thugs break into his apartment in the errant belief that they are accosting Jeff Lebowski, the Pasadena millionaire--not the laid-back, unemployed, `stuck in the 70s' Jeff Lebowski who calls himself the Dude.
		With the help of his bowling buddies, Walter (John Goodman) and Donnie (Steve Buscemi) he is talked into approaching the other Jeff "Big" Lebowski (David Huddleston) to ask for compensation on his rub because it was him that the two goons were after.
		Julianne Moore plays Maude Lebowski, and while she is definitely an intriguing character, she could never reach the heights as some of the others.
	www.dvdmg.com /biglebowski.shtml (1438 words)

	The Big Lebowski mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: When The Dude enters Lebowski's office the telephone is on the far right of the desk and the lamp is on the far left with 3 wooden objects between them.
		Lebowski in the West Wing, where he was in seclusion, he is handed Bunny's ransom note by Brandt.
		Lebowski, his jacket is open so that the hole in his shirt shows, then closed, then more open again from shot to shot.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film159 (1055 words)

	The Big Lebowski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their latest project, The Big Lebowski, is another remounting of the detective story, this time by way of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled dicks and moody Los Angeles settings, mixed up with some contemporary action and buddy-movie elements and a dash of All-American bowling culture.
		Lebowski employs the Dude to deliver the ransom money, the Dude gets the overzealous Walter to help him out, and things go terribly wrong (mostly because the money gets lost along the way).
		As this list of events and characters suggests, The Big Lebowski is the Coens' most sustained and provocative assault on the idea of narrative as a progression of events, or a development of character.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/l/lebowski.shtml (922 words)

	THE BIG LEBOWSKI movie review with photos, video
		As the film opens, Lebowski is attacked in his fleabag apartment by a couple of thugs who bash him because his wife supposedly owes a lot of money to a mobster.
		It's a big mistake, for soon the Dude and Walter are up to their bowling shirts in a family squabble, a kidnapping scheme, embezzlement and other insanities.
		The Big Lebowski plays out its craziness like the dream of an obsessed bowler who's also a Raymond Chandler mystery fan, and who had too much pizza and beer before going to sleep.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/b/bigleb.html (511 words)

	The Big Lebowski \| Movie Review \| Entertainment Weekly
		When this other Lebowski, the ''big'' Lebowski, discovers that his young porno-doll wife has been abducted, he enlists the Dude to deliver a million dollars to the kidnappers.
		Nearly everything in The Big Lebowski is a put-on, and all that leaves you with is the Coens' bizarrely over-deliberate, almost Teutonic form of rib nudging.
		Like Fargo and Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski poses as a cracked tribute to middle America, whose denizens, in the Coens' view, are sanctified by their knuckleball eccentricity.
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	The Big Lebowski
		And "The Big Lebowski" is the one Coen Brothers movie that could endure well beyond its time as a cult object.
		This new edition of "Lebowski" adds to this blithe senselessness in the form of an "exclusive introduction" by somebody pretending to be Mortimer Young, a doddering film preservationist, who, as with "Lebowski's" characters, keeps forgetting the main point of whatever it is he's talking about.
		The occasional acid flashback." Lines like this tempt speculation that "Lebowski" could be a laid-back elegy for a generation of lifestyle rebels that washed up on the shoals of the '70s and has struggled ever since to keep its buzz (if not hope) alive.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1019lewbowskidvd1019.html (719 words)

	HD DVD Review: The Big Lebowski \| High-Def Digest
		Jeff Bridges plays Jeffrey Lebowski ("The Dude"), a stoned slacker who spends the majority of his time at the local bowling alley, where he hangs out with a gun-toting bipolar powerhouse named Walter (John Goodman), a thick-headed stooge named Donny (Steve Buscemi), and a strange sexual-deviant named Jesus (John Turturro).
		Having said all that, the tone of 'The Big Lebowski' definitely isn't for everyone -- you have to like this particular style of comedy to benefit from the setup and payoff of each scene.
		In the end, 'The Big Lebowski' is a film that everyone should at least try -- its rabid fanbase should be proof enough that there's something unique and special to be found here.
	hddvd.highdefdigest.com /biglebowski.html (1398 words)

	The Big Lebowski
		While The Big Lebowski is not directly based on Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep, Joel Coen has said that "we wanted to do a Chandler kind of story - how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery.
		The Big Lebowski has some debt issues as it was his first wife who really was the wealthy one, and the thugs sent to rough him up about it make a little mistake.
		I walked into their seventh movie, The Big Lebowski, wondering if it would either be as great as Fargo, or as misguided as The Hudsucker Proxy.
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	Amazon.ca: The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition): DVD: Joel Coen,Jeff Bridges,Steve Buscemi,Sam ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Big Lebowski is a work of comic genius; it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
		Soon thereafter, the Big Lebowski calls him in and asks him to serve as the courier for a money drop to some guys who kidnapped his pretty young wife Bunny (Tara Reid).
		Perhaps the ultimate meditation on the fallout from the 1960s generation's excesses and mistakes, the Big Lebowski refuses to romanticise, rationalise or refuse the hippies, vietnam vets, and conceptual artists born of the decade.
	www.amazon.ca /Big-Lebowski-Widescreen-Collectors/dp/B000A7DVR2 (2592 words)

	Conflict Scripts - The Big Lebowski - Movie Review
		Bridges plays the titular character, Lebowski, or as he likes to be referred to as “The Dude”.
		John Goodman also delivers a performance like no other as Lebowski’s bowling buddy, Walter, a Vet with short temper and a foul mouth, who always mixes things up and then straightens them out again only to mix them up again later.
		And suddenly one becomes aware that The Big Lebowski is just as funny, just as sad, just as ordinary and just as strange as life itself.
	www.geocities.com /conflictscripts/thebiglebowski.html (352 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Big Lebowski'
		It quickly fell off the pop-culture radar at the time of its release, dismissed by many critics as confusing, overly complicated and in general a massive artistic failure for the Coens, who were more used to being the darlings of reviewers searching for cred with the indie crowd.
		Released on March 8, 1998, The Big Lebowski opened to a paltry $5.5 million at the box office, far behind the $16.8 million debut of U.S. Marshals and even further behind the $20 million-plus that Titanic pulled in its 12th week.
		But a few of those who did see The Big Lebowski in its short theatrical run saw something they liked in its weird crime-comedy plot, which smashed the conventions of classic Raymond Chandler Los Angeles noir into the ethos of modern slackdom as exemplified by Bridges' note-perfect delivery of the Dude.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.25.02/lebowski1-0230.html (1509 words)

	THE BIG LEBOWSKI - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While the bowler (Jeff Bridges) prefers to be called "Dude," he is alternatively known as Jeff Lebowski, resulting in several men breaking into his apartment to desecrate his rug.
		Distraught, simply because that rug "really tied the room together," Dude is encouraged by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), a gun-toting vet who relates everything in his environment to his experiences in the Vietnam War, to visit the "big" Lebowski and demand compensation for his urine-stained rug, since this was clearly a case of mistaken identity.
		The Big Lebowski is the Coen brothers' "dirtiest" movie; it's also not as cohesive as their previous works.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/lebowski.htm (1366 words)

	DVD Review: The Big Lebowski
		This is the Coen Brothers at their wackiest; Jeff Bridges plays a fantastic character named Jeff Lebowski, or as he likes to be called, "The Dude", "Duder", or "His Dudeness".
		The Millionaire Lebowski has had his trophy wife kidnapped; the deadbeat "Dude" is asked to find her.
		You just don't worry about where the story is going; you simply let the Coens lead you down their absurdist, wonderfully wacky yellow brick road, this time, to the land of L.A. It's a fun, witty and wildly entertaining film from the Coen brothers.
	www.currentfilm.com /thebiglebowskidvd.html (455 words)

	Images - The Big Lebowski
		Walter insists that he should go see the other Lebowski and ask him to pay for the rug: "He has the wealth, uh, the resources obviously," says Walter, "and there is no reason, no FUCKING reason, why his wife should go out and owe money and they pee on your rug.
		The Dude finds the other Jeffrey Lebowski is a self-made millionaire who made it to the top in spite of his handicap (he's confined to a wheelchair) and who finds sloth--especially as personified by the Dude--to be morally reprehensible.
		Lebowski's wife, Bunny (a beach bunny, porn star 30-40 years younger than her husband), has been kidnapped ("Bummer," says the Dude) and now Lebowski wants the Dude to act as courier once they receive instructions for the ransom payment.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue05/reviews/lebowski.htm (1004 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - The Big Lebowski
		"Lebowsky" loses some momentum toward the end as it tends to drag on, but the first 3/4 of the movie more than make up for it.
		For all you Coen fans out there (like myself), take note: "The Big Lebowski", a dynamic, breathlessly funny entertainment, is the formula that made the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, famous in the first place, a la Raising Arizona.
		But even with these flaws, "The Big Lebowski" is a richly satisfying movie that will quench your thirst until those big blockbusters come to rob all of your money.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=BigLebowski (1015 words)

	Review: The Big Lebowski
		The Big Lebowski is an off-the-wall comedy that has more in common with Raising Arizona than with Fargo.
		Most of the time, however, The Dude is content to stay at home, which is why he's known as "the laziest man in Los Angeles County." That is, until a group of inept crooks confuse him with The Big Lebowski (David Huddleston), one of the city's richest businessmen.
		The Big Lebowski is narrated by Sam Elliot, but, during his self-consciously long-winded opening monologue (in which he introduces The Dude), he suddenly loses his train of thought, and says as much to the audience.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/b/big_lebowski.html (980 words)

	The Big Lebowski
		Lebowski in town, as the goons could have mistaken the two.
		Now that Mr., Lebowski’s wife Bunny has been kidnapped, he decides to use the Dude as a courier.
		The Big Lebowski is a very witty, cynical, and overwhelmingly blunt film, that earns its laughs not with the amusing sight gags or funny one liners, but the pure comical craftsmanship of the everyday conversations between the Dude and his friends.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/lebowski.htm (537 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Big Lebowski (xhtml)
		In spirit, ``The Big Lebowski'' resembles the Coens' ``Raising Arizona,'' with its large cast of peculiar characters and its strangely wonderful dialogue.
		The rich Lebowski, in a wheelchair and gazing into a fireplace like Maj. Amberson in ``The Magnificent Ambersons,'' tells the Dude that his wife, Bunny (Tara Reid), has been kidnapped.
		This plan is opposed by Maude (Julianne Moore), the Big Lebowski's daughter from an earlier marriage.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980306/REVIEWS/803060301/1023 (730 words)

	Metaphilm - The Big Lebowski
		The Big Lebowski is himself a symbol of what the Dude might have become had he followed the road more traveled, finished college and fell into the Western idea of success.
		In other words, the Big Lebowski is the Bizarro-world Dude and stands diametrically opposed to everything the Dude holds dear (with the exception of the use of his legs; I bet he wishes he still had that).
		Consider all the stereotypical, symbolic figures in this movie: The Big Lebowski the Capitalist; Maude the Feminist; Smokey the Pacifist; Treehorn the Pornographer; Walter the Bellicose Vietnam Vet; Malibu Chief of Police the Fascist Cop; Karl Hungus the porn star/“Nazi” nihilist—all desire something from the Dude.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=362_0_2_0_M (1438 words)

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