Beginning its run to a fairly lukewarm reception and a fairly modest box office success, “The Big Lebowski” keeps growing in stature with each passing year. An absolute cult favorite and a pop culture cornerstone, this kooky Coen brothers masterpiece came on the heels of Academy Award winning “Fargo” and managed to surprise and confuse both critics and the general public by defying all expectations. “The Big Lebowski” is a crime comedy set in 1991, focusing on Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, a middle aged hippie slacker and an avid bowler living in Venice Beach, California. In a classic case of mistaken identity, a group of thugs attacks The Dude instead of a different Jeff Lebowski. They all realize the mix up, but not before one of the thugs urinates on The Dude’s rug. Looking to get compensated for the loss of a perfectly good rug, The Dude visits the other Jeff Lebowski, an old millionaire confined to a wheelchair. This initiates a series of bizarre events that entangle The Dude and his peculiar bowling friends into a web of money, violence and dangerous secrets involving porn producers and loan sharks, German nihilists, a militant avant-garde feminist looking for a mating partner and many other odd characters. Can our constantly stoned slacker hero find his way through this strange new world he suddenly found himself in?
Chris O'Dowd never returns borrowed designer suits
