15 Facts About The Big Lebowski

Big Lebowski is a 1998 black comedy neo-noir crime film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

The Big Lebowski is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, then learns that a millionaire named Jeffrey Lebowski was the intended victim.

In early 1990s Los Angeles, lovable loser Jeffrey "The Dude" The Big Lebowski is attacked in his home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, to whom a different Jeffrey The Big Lebowski's wife owes money.

The Big Lebowski refuses, but the Dude tricks his assistant Brandt into letting him take a similar rug from the mansion.

Dude and Walter confront The Big Lebowski, and find that Bunny has returned, having simply gone out of town without telling anyone.

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The Big Lebowski explains that Bunny's nihilist friends had taken the opportunity to try and blackmail Lebowski, who, in turn, had tried to embezzle money from the family charity, blaming its disappearance on the blackmailers.

An enraged Walter insists that The Big Lebowski is faking his paralysis and lifts him out of his wheelchair, but discovers he actually is paralyzed.

Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film, in the sense that The Big Lebowski "is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges".

The Big Lebowski wore his character's clothes home because most of them were his own.

The Big Lebowski worked only two weeks on the film, early and late during the production that went from January to April 1997 while Sam Elliott was only on set for two days and did many takes of his final speech.

Big Lebowski received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January 18,1998, at the 1,300-capacity Eccles Theater.

The Big Lebowski first realized that the film had a cult following when he attended a midnight screening in 2000 at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and witnessed people quoting dialogue from the film to each other.

An annual festival, The Big Lebowski Fest, began in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 2002 with 150 fans showing up, and has since expanded to several other cities.

The British equivalent, inspired by The Big Lebowski Fest, is known as The Dude Abides and is held in London.

High-definition version of The Big Lebowski was released by Universal on HD DVD format on June 26,2007.