john goodman is a cop in a bar

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

The Dude seeks restitution for his ruined porn tapes from the man for whom he has been mistaken, millionaire Big Lebowski.