Metrograph

The Coen’s cult comedy par excellence is the rare film not to contain a single unmemorable character or performance, from John Goodman’s John Milius-inspired gun nut Walter Sobchak to John Turturro’s snake-hipped sex offender Jesus Quintana to, of course, Jeff Bridges’s bathrobe-clad, White Russian-swilling hippie holdover Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, whose troubles begin when a crew of German nihilists soil his carpet as punishment for a debt that he didn’t, in fact, incur. A surreal, screamingly funny, and endlessly quotable odyssey through greater Los Angeles on the eve of Operation Desert Storm, and one of the quintessential American films of the 1990s.