4/20 Double Bill-The Big Lebowski & Half Baked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5y0HAzg3w Nuff said. 6:45pm- The Big Lebowski (1998) 9:30pm-Half Baked (1998) Munchies will be served to your seat, so arrive early to order. The Big Lebowski (1998) Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski, alias "The Dude." Lost permanently in the 1970s, he wanders around Venice, Calif., in a pot-suffused haze. He likes drinking White Russians, and he loves to hurl balls with his regular pals, Walter (Goodman), the loudmouthed owner of a security store, and Donny (Buscemi), a laid-back former surfer. In their screenplay for this movie, Ethan (also the producer) and Joel Coen (who directed) describe the Dude as "a man in whom casualness runs deep." They couldn't have put it better. The Dude's life is rudely interrupted when two bruisers rough him up, supposedly to threaten him for his wife's gambling excesses. But the Dude isn't even married. It seems the thugs, who work for a mysterious man called Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara), have mistaken him for another Jeff Lebowski (David Huddleston), an old Pasadena millionaire whose wife racked up all that debt. To add insult to injury, one of them urinates on Dude's favorite rug. With their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana-but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented-the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre. No one does it like them and, it almost goes without saying, no one does it better. Desson Howe- Washington Post Half Baked (1998)- When a member of their crew gets arrested for killing a New York City police horse by feeding it junk food, three slackin' stoners are forced to get off their butts and raise bail by selling pot stolen from a pharmaceutical lab. It's a risky plan but, hey, these are stand-up guys who would do anything to help out a friend in need.