The Big Lebowski (1998)

This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is an overweight, lazy, and unemployed middle-aged man living in Los Angeles who plays in a bowling league. One day some foreign criminals break into his house due to a mistaken identity. Jeff, who prefers to be called, the dude, has the same name as a wealthy man whose wife is missing. The rich Lebowski hires the dude to act as currier to give the kidnappers a ransom, but the situation isn’t as clear-cut as it seems.

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