The Big Lebowski is Simply Awful *

Rating: 1/10 (7 December 2013)

What a ridiculous farce this 1998 film is. Julianne Moore is pretty funny with her Katharine Hepburn like speech. Other than that, the film is from absolute hunger as the Coen Brothers again are trying to explore the obnoxious things of life.
Lebowski, Jeff Bridges, is confused with someone with the same last name, whose second much younger wife has been borrowing money all over town. When she disappears and a ransom note comes up, the wealthy Lebowski enlists the aid of Bridges to act as a go-between. Seems that Lebowski was mistaken for the other and the crooks urinated on his rug. To get even, Bridges takes the rug of the wealthier man as pay back.
Of course, Lebowski and his sidekick, John Goodman, a Catholic who is divorced from a Jewish woman and has adopted Orthodox Judaism, by being a sabbath observer, feel the woman staged the kidnapping.
The rest of this ridiculous film is devoted to crazy plot twists along the way. It wasn't appreciated when a certain four letter word was used to describe a synagogue.