The Big Lebowski
The Coen Brothers take as their model this time the noir thrillers of Raymond Chandler and cross them with the kaleidoscopic numbers of Busby Berkeley's musicals. Yes, you heard right.
One of their most ambitious parodic efforts, it stars Jeff Bridges as an LA slacker who shuttles between a team of bowling-alley cronies (Goodman, Buscemi) and the upscale quarters of the city inhabited by sinister characters (Julianne Moore, Peter Stormare) in his quest to be paid back for a rug ruined when a total stranger bursts into his apartment and pees on it.
Dense with blind alleys, non sequiturs and U-turns, the plot is indecipherable, but that's part of its charm - and the musical sequence, occurring when Bridges is laid out cold, cheerfully juggles genres.
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