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Some films including people fitting the " fish-out-of-water " bill including The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man.
Big movies of this sub-genre would be " The Big Lebowski ", Dude, Where's My Car, Big Nothing, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Pineapple Express.
Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U. S. box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release.
The next day, the titular " Big " Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, refuses The Dude's request.
The Dude meets Bunny Lebowski ( Reid ), the Big Lebowski's nymphomaniac trophy wife, while leaving the premises with a rug taken from the mansion.
Days later, the Big Lebowski contacts The Dude, revealing that Bunny has been kidnapped.
The Big Lebowski angrily confronts The Dude over his failure to hand over the money, and hands The Dude an envelope sent to him by the kidnappers which contains a severed toe, presumably Bunny's.
In a flash, The Dude unravels the whole scheme: when the Big Lebowski heard that Bunny was kidnapped, he used it as a pretense for an embezzlement scheme, in which he withdrew the ransom money from the family charity to keep for himself.
The Dude and Walter arrive at the Big Lebowski residence, finding Bunny back at home from her trip.
They confront the Big Lebowski with their version of the events.
* David Huddleston as Jeffrey Lebowski, the " Big " Lebowski of the movie's title, is a wheelchair-bound ( he lost the use of his legs in the Korean War ) multi-millionaire who is married to Bunny and is Maude's father by his late wife.
* Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski, the Big Lebowski's young " trophy wife.
The Big Lebowski was written around the same time as Barton Fink.
Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's contemporary take on Chandler with The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film in the sense that The Big Lebowski " is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges ".
PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded Fargo, backed The Big Lebowski with a budget of $ 15 million.
In The Big Lebowski we did write for John and Steve, but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role ".
* " Viva Las Vegas " – written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman ; performed by Big Johnson ( with Bunny Lebowski ) and by Shawn Colvin ( closing credits ).
The Big Lebowski received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 1998 at the 1, 300 capacity Eccles Theater.
However, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader, " To be sure, The Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a result is pretty entertaining.

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* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).
In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.
* Coen, Ethan and Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski ;( May 1998, Faber and Faber Ltd .), ISBN 0-571-19335-8.
* Robertson, William Preston, Tricia Cooke, John Todd Anderson and Rafael Sanudo, The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film, ( 1998, W. W. Norton & Company ), ISBN 0-393-31750-1.
The White Russian is the favorite drink of Jeffrey " The Dude " Lebowski, the main character of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).
In 2005, journalist Oliver Benjamin founded The Church of Latter-Day Dude, a website-philosophy and mock religion inspired by the character " the Dude ", a former hippie, in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski.
In 1998, he starred as what is arguably his most famous role, " The Dude ", in the Coen Brothers ' cult-classic film The Big Lebowski.
* 1998: Tales from the Big Bus
" A Clear Spot song, " Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles ", appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers ' cult comedy film The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ).
* Available in All Colours, 1998 album, Big Cat Records
* The Big One ( 1998 ) Documentary film Moore urges Nike to consider building a shoe factory in Flint.
He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison ( 1995 ), Happy Gilmore ( 1996 ), The Waterboy ( 1998 ), Big Daddy ( 1999 ), and Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ), though he has ventured into more dramatic territory.
Edwin " Big Ed " Wilkes ( 1931 – 1998 ), a radio personality in Lubbock, Texas, was born in Blue Mountain but moved to Lubbock with his family in 1942.
In the Coen Brothers 1998 motion picture The Big Lebowski, the fictional chief of police describes it thus: " We've got a nice, quiet beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet ".
The highest temperature recorded at Big Bear was 94 ° F ( 34 ° C ), last recorded on July 15, 1998.
Two years later in 1998, a Big League Division ( ages 17 – 18 ) Conejo Valley Little League team won a World Championship, defeating a Venezuelan Team 10-9 and going 26-1 in tournament play.
http :// articles. latimes. com / 1998 / aug / 23 / sports / sp-15787 In 2006, Thousand Oaks won the World Championship in the Big League Division ( ages 16 – 18 ) of Little League by defeating a team from Puerto Rico 10-0.
On July 1, 1998, during the removing process for Big Tom, the statue caught fire from a cutting torch, which was being used to remove the wings.
Moorhead is briefly referenced in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski as the hometown of one of the main characters, Bunny Lebowski.

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