The Coen brothers and their agreeable cast make more fun than sense with this scattered farce about a pothead bowler who is mistaken for a deadbeat philanthropist and drawn into a cluster of kidnapers, nihilists, porn mobsters and Busby Berkeley beauties.
Production Polygram Filmed Entertainment; Working Title Films [gb];
Cast Names Jeff Bridges; John Goodman; Julianne Moore; Steve Buscemi; David Huddleston; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Tara Reid; Philip Moon; Mark Pellegrino; Peter Stormare; Flea; Torsten Voges; Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Jack Kehler; John Turturro; James G. Hoosier; Carlos Leon; Terrence Burton; Richard Gant; Christian Clemenson; Dom Irrera; Gérard L'Heureux; David Thewlis; Lu Elrod; Mike Gomez; Peter Siragusa; Sam Elliott; Marshall Manesh; Harry Bugin; Jesse Flanagan; Irene Olga López; Luis Colina; Ben Gazzara; Leon Russom; Ajgie Kirkland; Jon Polito; Aimee Mann; Jerry Haleva; Jennifer Lamb; Warren Keith;
Box Office USD 17,439,163
Release Date 1998-03-06 2006-07-02 (Moonlit Matines Film Festival)
Genres Comedy; Crime; Mystery;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality
and brief violence.