The best film ever about just being a dude...

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2001)

The Coen Brothers hit gold (again) with this film, the best film ever about just being a dude. Jeff Bridges is superb in his Peter Smith-like portrait of an everyday Californian joe who suddenly finds himself embroiled in a world of kidnap, extortion and violence after a group of germans break into his house, mistake him for a millionaire, and soil his carpet. Heck, he's just the Dude. Bridges recently admitted that whenever he catches this film on TV he finds it hard to switch over. It's easy to see why. Like all the Coens best films, this is a multi-layered work with memorable characters, effective cameos, the usual strangeness, quotable lines (some of the best) and some very very funny scenes. Original and definitely one to catch, again and again...