Bunny's nihilist friends took the opportunity to blackmail Lebowski, who, in turn, had tried to embezzle money from the family charity, blaming its disappearance on the blackmailers. The Dude and Walter confront Lebowski and find that Bunny has returned, having simply gone out of town without telling anyone. She tells the Dude that her father has no money of his own his wealth came from her late mother. She is trying to become pregnant by a father with whom she will not have to interact. Maude is waiting for the Dude and has sex with him. On the way home he sees Bunny drive by (whose toes are still intact). He is arrested while wandering deliriously in Malibu and evicted by the police chief. The Dude says Bunny faked her kidnapping and Larry has the money, then passes out from a spiked drink Treehorn gave him. Jackie Treehorn's thugs abduct the Dude and bring him to the porn kingpin, who demands to know where Bunny is and what happened to his money. Instead the car belongs to a neighbor, who smashes the Dude's car in return. Walter assumes that a sports car in front of Larry's house was purchased with the ransom and smashes it. He and Walter visit the teenage Larry but get no information from him. The briefcase is missing but the Dude finds a clue: a sheet of homework signed by Larry Sellers.

Maude asks the Dude to help recover the money, which her father illegally withdrew from the family's charity foundation.

The Dude is confronted by Lebowski, who has an envelope from the kidnappers containing a severed toe, supposedly Bunny's. He and The Dude return to the bowling alley, leaving the briefcase of money in the car trunk. That night, another group of thugs ambush the Dude, taking his replacement rug on behalf of Lebowski's daughter Maude, who has a sentimental attachment to it.Ĭonvinced that the kidnap was a ruse by Bunny, Walter fakes the ransom drop. Soon afterwards, Bunny is apparently kidnapped, and Lebowski hires The Dude to deliver a ransom. Outside, he meets Bunny, Lebowski's trophy wife, and her German nihilist friend Uli. Lebowski refuses, but the Dude tricks his assistant Brandt into letting him take a similar rug from the mansion. One enforcer urinates on the Dude's rug before the two realize that they have the wrong man and leave.Ĭonsulting his bowling partners, Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak and fall guy Donny Kerabatsos, the Dude visits wealthy philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski ('the big Lebowski'), requesting compensation for the rug.

In 1991, slacker and avid bowler Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski is attacked in his Los Angeles home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, to whom a different Jeffrey Lebowski's wife owes money. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. Reviews have since become largely positive, and the film has become a cult favorite, noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack. The Big Lebowski received mixed reviews at the time of its release. The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers. Joel Coen stated, 'We wanted to do a Chandler kind of story – how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant'. The film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Sam Elliott, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito, and Ben Gazzara also appear in supporting roles. The plan goes awry when the Dude's friend, Walter Sobchak ( John Goodman), schemes to keep the ransom money for the Dude and himself. The millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is supposedly kidnapped, and millionaire Lebowski commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, then learns that a millionaire, also named Jeffrey Lebowski ( David Huddleston), was the intended victim. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. The Big Lebowski ( / l ə ˈ b aʊ s k i/) is a 1998 independent crime comedy film directed and co-written by Joel Coen, with producer brother Ethan Coen serving as co-writer.

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