1998 · comedy · crime
The Big Lebowski
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen1h 57m1998
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.
Our read: The Big Lebowski (1998) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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