Zen for Boomers: Lebowski as the Anti-Hero

Rating: 10/10 (6 November 2003)

Apart from its burgeoning cult status, this film is seriously overlooked and underrated. Perhaps partially the result of gross marketing misrepresentation. Regardless, you know how there are some films that strike such a cord that you tend to believe you can effectively use them to screen potential friends and lovers? This is such a film for me. Excellent script, generation-defining philosophy (both Boomers and Xers tend to like it the most in my experience) tempered with humor, unforgettable characters and performances exquisitely produced. My favorite film of the Coen brothers' offerings and in my top ten of anyone else's. Great soundtrack, to boot.