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The Big Lebowski

A New Year’s Eve Screening

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Jeff Bridges is the Dude, a drop out looking for his virtue, and his rug, in the moral free-zone of contemporary Malibu.

Come dressed as your favourite character. White Russians available as an add-on with your ticket.

The plot — thick as Kahlua — accommodates nihilist former krautrockers, fluxus artists, porn moguls, tearaway Minnesota farmgirls, paraplegic fake millionaires, TV Western writers in iron lungs, neo-Jewish Vietnam vets, paedophile bowlers and Saddam Hussein… Key ingredients include the endlessly quoteable dialogue, an inspired cast of actors clearly relishing their lines, and T Bone Burnett’s jukebox soundtrack.

Nick Bradshaw, The DVD Stack

Directors

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Cast

Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddlestone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, David Thewlis, Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

1998

Language

English

19+
127 min

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Credits

Screenwriter

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Cinematography

Roger Deakins

Original Music

Carter Burwell

Production Design

Rick Heinrichs

Art Director

John Dexter

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