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The Big Lebowski

1998 · TMDB 7.8

Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

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The Dude's dream sequence, with its ballet of bowling and Julianne Moore's swooping figure, is set to the ethereal strains of the 'Piano Concerto No. 1' by Tchaikovsky, a moment of pure, absurd transcendence.

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