A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
MPAA rating: R; pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality and brief violence.|||adult
Universal ; Polygram Filmed Entertainment presents a Working Title production ; produced by Ethan Coen ; written by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen ; directed by Joel Coen.
DVD release of the 1998 motion picture.
Special features: introduction featuring Mortimer Young, practitioner of "non-uptight" film preservation; never-before-available images; making of The big Lebowski; production notes.
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Flea, Leon Russom, Sam Elliott.
Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; editors, Roderick Jaynes, Tricia Cooke ; original music, Carter Burwell ; musical archivist, T-Bone Burnett.
DVD.
English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), or Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0) soundtracks; optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, optional subtitles in French, or Spanish.
