Big Lebowski, The
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| Taglines: | 1: (Israel, translated from Hebrew): Lebowski: Not a man, a way of life 2: Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail. 3: It takes guys as simple as the Dude and Walter to make a story this complicated… and they’d really rather be bowling. 4: They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right. 5: Times like these call for a Big Lebowski. |
| Plot Summary: | Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski is the ultimate LA slacker, until one day his house is broken into and his rug is peed on by two angry gangsters who have mistaken him for Jeffrey Lebowski, the LA millionaire, whose wife owes some bad people some big money. The Dude becomes entangled in the plot when he goes to visit the real Lebowski in order to get some retribution for his soiled rug, and is recruited to be the liason between Lebowski and the captors of his now “kidnapped” wife. |
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