What cult comedy featuring Jeff Bridges is about a bowling-addicted slacker?

The cult comedy featuring Jeff Bridges about a bowling-centered slacker is The Big Lebowski. Bridges plays Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a laid-back Los Angeles resident whose quiet routine is disrupted when thugs mistake him for a wealthy man with the same name.

Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1998 film follows The Dude as he seeks compensation for a soiled rug and becomes entangled in a kidnapping scheme. His bowling partners, the volatile Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak and the gentle Donny Kerabatsos, accompany him through the increasingly absurd plot. Bowling provides the film’s social setting as much as its sport: the characters argue, drink, and philosophize between frames.

The movie draws on elements of Raymond Chandler-style detective stories while mixing noir, surreal dream sequences, Los Angeles eccentricity, and memorable slang. It was not an immediate box-office sensation, but repeated home viewing helped turn it into a cult classic. The Dude’s White Russians, bathrobe, and relaxed worldview became as recognizable as the film’s bowling scenes.