The Big Lebowski

This week, A. O. Scott looks back at “The Big Lebowski,” the offbeat 1998 cult classic from Joel and Ethan Coen. In the middle of the film’s busy and hyperactive plot is the calmness of the Dude, played by Jeff Bridges. Mr. Scott sees the character as the ultimate personification of the disconnect between the world’s important matters and the tedium of ordinary life.

“For all the trumped-up mystery and drama,” Mr. Scott says, “the movie offers some tantalizing and simple clues as to what, in the end, it’s all about.”
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JHFiore showed me this on dvd a few years ago.