Word: lebowskis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise of the Coens' new film The Big Lebowski is that Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), known to his pals simply as "the Dude," turns out to be one of the funniest and most likable screen characters in recent memory...
...Lebowski carries high expectations, coming on the heels of the Coens' unexpectedly successful Fargo, but these eccentric filmmakers don't seem to care much about expectations. Where Fargo was a cool, controlled story with precise bits of black humor, The Big Lebowski lets it all hang loose...
There are, difficult as it may be to believe, two Jeff Lebowskis living in the Greater Los Angeles area. There's the rich, shady one (David Huddleston) ensconced in a Pasadena mansion, who gives The Big Lebowski its title. His opposite number is better known as "Dude." Played by Jeff Bridges, he's a burned-out beach bum whose mental clock stopped sometime in the '70s. But when some thugs, mistaking him for his namesake, invade his pad, beat him up and, worse, ruin the rug that ties the whole living room together, he seeks redress. Or at least some...
John Goodman can soon be seen in the movies Fallen, Blues Brothers 2000, The Big Lebowski and The Borrowers...