The Big Lebowski The Dude Abides License Plate Frame Reads "The Dude Abides." Display this The Big Lebowski license plate frame on your car or truck! Based on the classic movie The Big Lebowski. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is a real laid-back kind of guy. He enjoys "bowling, driving, (and having) the occasional acid flashback." In the classic film The Big Lebowski, this humble pacifist and his bowling buddies become entangled in a web of embezzlement, supposed kidnapping, and White Russians.