Plot summary

Los Angeles, 1990. Spending his days sipping White Russians and the nights at the local bowling alley with his only friends Walter and Donny, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a sympathetic unemployed layabout, is a failure in every aspect of life. Then, as if having zero motivation to do anything weren't enough, two goons, bent on collecting a debt, mistake the pot-smoking slacker for another Lebowski: the reclusive millionaire philanthropist Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski. And as the pair of thugs irreparably ruin an irreplaceable item in Jeff's decrepit home, The Dude gets caught up in an intricate kidnapping plot involving the magnate's young trophy wife, Bunny. Now her life is in Jeffrey's hands. However, is The Dude up to the task?—Nick Riganas