The Big Lebowski (1998)

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Year of Production: 1998
Running Times: 117 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS

(Full Credits)

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Working Title Films
Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Ethan Coen
Producer: Ethan Coen
Co-Producer: John Cameron

SCRIPT
Script: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

DIRECTION
Director: Joel Coen

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Roger Deakins

EDITING
Editors: Roderick Jaynes (real names: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen), Tricia Cooke

MUSIC
Music: Carter Burwell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Requiem); Modest Mussorgsky (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
Orchestrators of Original Music: Carter Burwell, Sonny Kompanek

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Jean Black
Hair: Daniel Curet
Costume Designer: Mary Zophres

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: The Computer Film Company Inc
Visual Effects Supervisor: Janek Sirrs
Visual Effects Producer: Janet Yale

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
Art Director: John Dexter
Set Designer: Hariko Braswell

CASTING
Casting: John Lyons

CAST
Jeff Bridges (Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski)
John Goodman (Walter Sobchak)
Julianne Moore (Maude Lebowski)
Steve Buscemi (Donny)
David Huddleston (Jeffrey Lebowski, "The Big Lebowski")
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Brandt)
Tara Reid (Bunny Lebowski)
Philip Moon, Mark Pellegrino (Treehorn thugs)
Peter Stormare (Ulee Kunkel)
Flea, Torsten Voges (nihilists)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (Smokey)
Jack Kehler (Dude's landlord)
John Turturro (Jesus Quintana)
James G. Hoosier (Quintana's partner)
Carlos Leon, Terrence Burton (Maude's thugs)
Richard Gant (older cop)
Christian Clemenson (younger cop)
Dom Irrera (Tony the chauffeur)
Gérard L'Heureux (Lebowski's chauffeur)
David Thewlis (Knox Harrington)
Lu Elrod (coffee shop waitress)
Michael Gomez (auto circus cop)
Peter Siragusa (Gary the bartender)
Sam Elliott (the stranger)
Marshall Manesh (doctor)
Harry Bugin (Arthur Digby Sellers)
Jesse Flanagan (Little Larry Sellers)
Irene Olga López (Pilar)
Luis Colina (Corvette owner)
Ben Gazzara (Jackie Treehorn)
Leon Russom (Malibu Police Chief)
Ajgie Kirkland (cab driver)
Jon Polito (private snoop)
Aimee Mann (nihilist woman)
Jerry Haleva (Saddam)
Jennifer Lamb (pancake waitress)
Warren Keith (funeral director)
Asia Carrera (girl in Logjammin' - uncredited)
Paris Themmen (uncredited)

Dancers: Alison Simpson, Amy Warren, Bree Turner, Caitlin McLean, Carrie Macy, Danielle Marcus-Janssen, Danielle Nicole Parish, Elizabeth A. Eaton, Holly Copeland, Jacqui Landrum, Jamie Green, Jenifer Strovas, Jennifer S. Garett, Joelle Martinec, Julie Bond, Karen Christenberry, Katherine Slay, Kelly Sheerin, Kim Yates, Kiva Dawson, Laurel Kitten, Lindsay Fellenbaum, Lisa C. Boltauzer, Lori Jo Birdsell, Martina Volpp, Mary Lee, Melissa Aggeles, Michelle E. Swanson, Natalie Webb, Sandra Plazinic, Wendy Braun, Michelle Rudy-Mirkovich, Amy Tinkham

STAND-INS
Frank C. Turner, Ken Kells

Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is a carefree, bowling-loving slacker in LA whose life is turned upside down when his house is broken into by a pair of gangsters who piss on his carpet. The gangsters have mistaken Lebowski for his namesake, a millionaire whose wife owes the gangsters a large sum of money. The Dude calls on Lebowski looking for compensation and finds himself drawn into a plot to get the millionaire's abducted daughter back from the mob...

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Lider Films
Video Distributor: Gativideo

Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Scanbox Finland

Germany
Theatrical Distributor: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Portugal
Theatrical Distributor: Vitoria Filme

Switzerland
Theatrical Distributor: Ascot Elite Entertainment Group

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Gramercy Pictures

Argentina
Rating: 16

Australia
Rating: MA

Belgium
Rating: KT

Finland
Rating: K-16

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: 12

Hong Kong
Rating: IIB

Iceland
Rating: 12

Netherlands
Rating: 12

Norway
Rating: 15

Portugal
Rating: M / 12

Sweden
Rating: 15

Switzerland
Rating: 12

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R (for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality and brief violence)

1998
February
15: Germany - shown at the Berlin Film Festival

March
6: Canada - theatrical release
6: USA - theatrical release
19: Germany - theatrical release
20: Switzerland - theatrical release (German speaking region)

April
9: Australia - theatrical release
15: Belgium - theatrical release
22: France - theatrical release
24: Spain - theatrical release
27: Mexico - shown at the Muestra Internacional de Cine
30: Iceland - theatrical release

May
1: Italy - theatrical release
1: UK - theatrical release
14: Netherlands - theatrical release

June
11: Hong Kong - theatrical release

July
23: Slovakia - theatrical release

August
21: Denmark - theatrical release
27: New Zealand - theatrical release
27: Singapore - theatrical release

September
11: Norway - theatrical release
18: Finland - shown at the Helsinki International Film Festival
18: Sweden - theatrical release
24: Hungary - theatrical release

October
8: Slovenia - theatrical release
24: South Korea - theatrical release
30: Finland - theatrical release
30: Portugal - theatrical release

November
21: Japan - theatrical release

1999
January
15: Bulgaria - theatrical release

April
15: Argentina - theatrical release

July
9: Brazil - theatrical release
9: Estonia - theatrical release

September
17: Thailand - theatrical release

Times like these call for a Big Lebowski.

Her life was in their hands.Now her toe is in the mail.

They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.

Lebovski ze derech hayim - Israel

Anbefales av Norsk bowling forbund - Norway (it's a supposed recommendation from the Norwegian Bowling Association!)

Il Grande Lebowski - Italian title

SEE ALSO
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Blood Simple (1984)

MAGAZINES

A Capital, Guia TV 16 July 1999
review (by Rui Brazuna)

A Capital 30 October 1998
review (by Rui Brazuna)

Correio da Manhã 30 October 1998
review (by Vitoriano Rosa)

Diário de Notícias 30 October 1998
review (by Eurico De Barros)

Diário de Notícias, DNmais 31 October 1998. (NP)
review (by João Antunes)

Expresso, Cartaz 31 October 1998
review (by Manuel Cintra Ferreira)

Film Review May 1998 pp.18, 81
review (by Jason Caro); review (by Andy Lowe)

Svenska Dagbladet 18 September 1998
review (Munter meditation över män by Jan Söderqvist)

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