This is a great movie. The coen brothers are the best sibling directors ever. Jeff Bridges does a great job. You dont mess with jesus.
The Big Lebowski
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Common Sense says
A wild ride for adults only.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 17–18
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of The Big Lebowski was written by Heather Boerner
Parents need to know that this movie is inappropriate for kids. The Dude is subject to a lot of violence. One group threatens to cut off his penis, while another threatens him by shoving his face in the toilet. A Malibu police chief hits him with a coffee cup. A woman's toe gets cut off (though not on screen), Walter wields a gun more than once, and Walter, the Dude, and Donny get in a fight with a group of nihilists. Women are most often treated as objects and there's some frontal female nudity. The Dude drinks and smokes pot while driving, and while doing everything else. There's lots of profanity as well.
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What’s the Story?
All the Dude (Jeff Bridges) wants is some more milk for his White Russians. Instead, he comes home from an all-night grocery store to an ambush by some thugs who mistake the Dude for Jeffrey Lebowski, a philanthropist with a wife who's racking up debts all over town. The guys shove his head in a toilet, urinate on his rug, and leave the place with a threat. From there on, the Dude just wants to replace his rug, which "tied the whole place together." Following the Dude, THE BIG LEBOWSKI takes the viewer on a crazy ride through psychotic bowling beefs, deception by the disabled, naked, flying art, kidnappings, nihilists, and ransoms. All along, the Dude is accompanied by his blustering Vietnam vet bowling buddy Walter (John Goodman), who gets him in even worse trouble. Will the Dude be able to recover a lost $1 million ransom? Will Maude carry his baby? And what ever happened to the porn actress-turned-trophy wife-turned-supposed kidnapping victim? The Dude will show you.
Is It Any Good?
Nymphomania, pot, White Russians, and the search for a rug to tie his living room together set the stage for The Big Lebowski, a wild ride through Los Angeles' underbelly. Like other Coen brothers' movies, the story is too crazy to be believed -- and so well done you can't stop watching it.
The brilliance of The Big Lebowski isn't so much in the story -- though it's got plenty of twists and turns -- but the characters and actors. Along with the two main players, there's the masterfully creepy and hilarious Jesus (John Turturro), the Oscar-winning and brilliant Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Steve Buscemi, who uses his doe eyes to great effect here. Having sung the films praises, it's also important to say that this is NOT a movie for kids.
Movie Details
Studio: Universal Studios, Director: Joel Coen
Run time: 108 minutes
Theatrical release: 01/01/1998, DVD release: 10/18/2005
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality, and brief violence
Run time: 108 minutes
Theatrical release: 01/01/1998, DVD release: 10/18/2005
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality, and brief violence
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Most Recent Reviews
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I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate language
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- Good role models
I'm a lebowski, your a lebowski
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I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
great movie
this is the coens masterpeice, waaaaay above and beyond fargo. but apart from the swearing its all very comedy and saying its not appropriate for kids is well an overstatement. most will be able to deal with it fine, and its awesome
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I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it
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- Inappropriate language
A cohens, cussin' classic!
A classic cohen brothers, very strong, frequent language if you check any content guide you will see that the film has over 250+ F-bombs, which I don't mind, language is language just the same to me there is no difference between dam n, hel l or the F-bomb (which I can't print on this website)
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I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it
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- Inappropriate language
Great Movie W/ Some Issues!!
Great movie with the only concern of the 200+ F-Words!! Hilarious film otherwise!!!
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I rate this title on for age 16 and give it
LALALALALALA THES BEST COMEDY EVER!
Jeff Bridges and John Goodman give the performance of a life time and this was big time snubbed. This cult is an american classic!
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
I laughed my head of at the Ferret part!
Now this is a funny movie, but a bit edgy, so watch out for your kids parents.
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
absolutely HILARIOUS!
This movie is a one of a kind. I thought it was great, really funny, and a really great plot. There's a lot of cursing in the movie (mostly the F-word), The Dude smokes pot, and drinks a lot. And the Dude may not be someone you want your little ones immitating. they also may have a hard time following the storyline . Great movie, for about 12-13 and up.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
hilarious adult comedy!!
this was a great movie. It had pretty much constant swearing and some violence also some nudity and sex. Still very funny. If your my age watch it with an adult, maybe your dad like I did.
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