Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) on Netflix
Jesse and Chester wake up after a night of partying with no memory of it. Jesse's car is gone, and the anniversary presents for their girlfriends were inside it.
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- Rotten Tomatoes16%
Trailer
Plot summary
Roommates Jesse and Chester come to after a night they cannot remember, their kitchen cabinets packed with containers of pudding. Wilma and Wanda, the twin girlfriends, have left an angry message on the answering machine asking where they are, and the men have nearly lost their jobs delivering pizzas. Jesse's car is not outside, and the girls' anniversary gifts were inside it. The girls have also held out a special reward, so the pair try to reconstruct the missing hours, crossing paths with a transgender stripper, Zoltan and his UFO cultists, a tailor who speaks Cantonese, and Nelson with his dog Jackal.
Cast
- Christian Middelthonas Alien Nordic Dude #1
- Dave Bannickas Alien Nordic Dude #2 (as David W. Bannick)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
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- In 2012 the Pittsburgh Pirates, led by player Neil Walker, adopted the film's "Zoltan" hand signal to celebrate plays after watching the movie in a visiting clubhouse, and actor Hal Sparks later flew in to throw out a ceremonial first pitch for the team.
- Writer Philip Stark took the film's title from a line in The Big Lebowski, and said his early drafts, influenced by post-Kantian philosophy, treated the search for the missing car as a metaphor for finding meaning in a chaotic universe before it was buried under sci-fi absurdity.
- To dodge an R rating over its drug-culture content, the studio kept the film at PG-13 by never actually showing the characters smoking marijuana, leaving them simply looking perpetually dazed instead.
- Seth Rogen and Jake Gyllenhaal both auditioned for the lead roles before the final duo was cast, the script was offered to Jason Reitman twice and he turned it down both times, and Hal Hartley also turned down the offer to direct.
- Writer Philip Stark has since said he cringes at some of the film's jokes about ethnic minorities, transgender people and gay men, and believes the movie could never be made today, both for its humor and because mid-budget studio comedies have disappeared.
