“The Dude Abides”: How "The Big Lebowski" Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests by Katarzyna Małecka

“…Consequently, The Big Lebowski, the Coens’ 1998 neo-noir detective comedy, was considered an incoherent, “unsatisfactory” medley of genres and styles and a box office bomb, and nothing hinted that this unorthodox story of mistaken identity, featuring a pot-smoking, unemployed character named the Dude as its “hee-ro,” would gain a following. …”
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