Director: Joel Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen
Studio: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date: 01/1998
Countries: UK, USA
Runtime: 117 min
Awards: 1 win & 7 nominations
Description: Slacker Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) gets involved in a gargantuan mess of events when he's mistaken for another man named Lebowski, whose wife has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. All the while, Dude's friend, Walter (John Goodman), stirs the pot. Brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen write and direct this cult comedy classic that also stars Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore and John Turturro.
Actors
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Smokey |
| John Goodman | Walter Sobchak |
| Jeff Bridges | Jeffrey Lebowski - The Dude |
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| Asia Carrera | |
| Ben Gazzara | |
| David Thewlis | |
| John Turturro | Jesus Quintana |
| Steve Buscemi | Theodore Donald 'Donny' Kerabatsos |
| Christian Clemenson | |
| David Huddleston | Jeffrey Lebowski - The Big Lebowski |
| Flea | Nihilist #2, Kieffer |
| Jack Kehler | Marty |
| James G. Hoosier | |
| Jon Polito | |
| Julianne Moore | Maude Lebowski |
| Mark Pellegrino | Blond Treehorn Thug |
| Paris Themmen | |
| Peter Siragusa | |
| Peter Stormare | Nihilist #1, Uli Kunkel / 'Karl Hungus' |
| Philip Moon | Woo, Treehorn Thug |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Brandt |
| Richard Gant | |
| Sam Elliott | |
| Tara Reid | Bunny Lebowski |
| Torsten Voges | Nihilist #3, Franz |






Why not recommended???
"Not recommended"?? It is, and highly so - as I said above, I can not recommend it enough!:)
woops. misread as "though", not "enough"! sorry