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.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

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 ).

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.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

Big Bear and Poundmaker each received a three-year sentence.

" Charles Durning, as Big Daddy, received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Maercus L. Giles received a certificate to teach a public school which was probably located somewhere on upper Big Brushy Creek.

Once populated by only the natives and the Grizzly bears, from which the area received its name, Big Bear Valley grew rapidly during the Southern California Gold Rush from 1861 to 1912.

* The sheriff in Big Top Pee-wee ( 1988 ) received a report from Porterville about a windstorm approaching Pee-wee Herman's local town.

Albert Lea received national attention in 1959 after Local 6 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America went on strike against Wilson & Co. ( one of the Big Four meatpacking plants at the time ) over issues involving mandatory overtime requirements.

Around 1818, a Cherokee chief known as Big Bear received a reservation of land immediately west of the confluence of Deep Creek and the Tuckasegee River, which included most of what is now Bryson City.

Big Spring was also featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1969.

They received a grant of in 1768 where " Sycamore Creek joins Big Mill Creek " ( the current site of Ripley ).

" This was much due to threats he received from three half-brothers, early Old West gunman " Big " Steve Long, Con Moyer and Ace Moyer.

A 20-year old man was arrested, and the attack was thought to have something to do with her performance on Celebrity Big Brother where nearly 50, 000 complaints were received about her and two other female contestants ' apparent racist bullying toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.

Big Questions, a five part Channel 4 science series for young people that he presented received a BAFTA nomination in 2002.

Adams ' songwriting received additional exposure when Joan Baez included his song " In My Time of Need ", from his debut release, on her 2003 album Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.

Big was received with almost unanimous critical acclaim ; based on 53 reviews collected by the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 96 % of critics gave the film a positive " Certified Fresh " review and the consensus stating " Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.

Rappers Jay-Z, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pun, DMX, Wyclef Jean and the Wu-Tang Clan replied to the song and Nas, who received the track positively, invited Jackson to travel on a promotional tour for his Nastradamus album.

Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the " Big Five " of the new international order.

Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1985 ).

She received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her appearance in the episode, " A Cardinal Act of Mercy " ( 1963 ), of the television series, Ben Casey ( 1961 – 1966 ), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for her appearance in Tennessee Williams's Southern melodrama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1985 ), this time as Big Mama.

There he received the nickname The Big Rapids Schoolmaster, and served as president until his death.