Big Lebowski Bowling Ball Views

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Jeff The Dude Lebowski returns home only to be roughed up by two thugs claiming to be collecting money that Lebowski's wife owes a man named Jackie Treehorn. After beating him and urinating on his rug, they realize they are looking for a different person with the same name, and they leave. At the instigation of his friend and bowling teammate Walter Sobchak (Goodman), The Dude decides to seek compensation for the rug from the other Jeffrey Lebowski. The next day, the titular Big Lebowski (Huddleston), 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.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a Collector's Edition DVD on October 18, 2005 with extra features that included an introduction by Mortimer Young , Jeff Bridges' Photography , Making of The Big Lebowski , and Production Notes . In addition, a limited-edition Achiever's Edition Gift Set also included The Big Lebowski Bowling Shammy Towel, four Collectible Coasters that included photographs and quotable lines from the movie, and eight Exclusive Photo Cards from Jeff Bridges’ personal collection.[77]

A 10th Anniversary Edition was released on September 9, 2008 and features all of the extras from the Collector's Edition and The Dude's Life: Strikes and Gutters ... Ups and Downs ... The Dude Abides , theatrical trailer (from the first DVD release), The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story , Flying Carpets and Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of the Dude , Interactive Map , Jeff Bridges Photo Book ,and a Photo Gallery . There are both a standard release and a Limited Edition which features Bowling Ball Packaging and is individually numbered.[78]

Soaking in a bubble bath, smoking a joint and listening to whale sounds, Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is surely a happy man. And he keeps his funny, enviable cool throughout ''The Big Lebowski,'' despite the nonstop difficulties (like an attack ferret tossed into that bathtub) that the Coen brothers throw his way. In their latest crazy fable, the Coens send their shaggy hero into turmoil after strangers break into his apartment and grievously insult his rug. It's hard to resist a guy who turns up at the bowling alley with his buddies, grousing, ''Man, it really tied the room together!'' because the rug is gone.