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Dude, Where's My Car?
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Danny Leiner
Produced by	Gil Netter
Written by	Philip Stark
Starring	Ashton Kutcher Seann William Scott Jennifer Garner Marla Sokoloff Kristy Swanson David Herman Hal Sparks Charlie O'Connell
Music by	David Kitay
Cinematography	Robert M. Stevens
Editing by	Kimberly Ray
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	December 15, 2000
Running time	83 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Gross revenue	$46,729,374
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Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Danny Leiner. Jesse and Chester (Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott) are two stoners who wake up from a night of wild partying to find out that their car is missing. This film tells the story of their journey to find the car.

This movie received poor reviews from critics, but was a modest box-office success, and has managed to develop a cult following after its DVD and home video release.

The title of the film has become a benchmark of popular culture of the time of its release. It is referenced widely, an example being Dude, Where's My Country?, the title of a political book by Michael Moore criticising post-9/11 America.

Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) awaken with hangovers and no memory of how they got there. Their house is filled (quite literally) with containers of pudding, and there's an angry message from their twin girlfriends Wilma (Marla Sokoloff) and Wanda (Jennifer Garner) on the answering machine. They emerge from their home to find Jesse's car missing, and with it their girlfriends' one year anniversary presents. This prompts Jesse to ask the film's title question: "Dude, where's my car?"

The duo begins retracing their steps in an attempt to discover just where they left the car. Along the way, they encounter a transgender stripper (Fabio), a belligerent Chinese food drive-in restaurant speaker box (Freda Foh Shen) (Which keeps asking "AND THEN??"), UFO cultists, a Cantonese-speaking Chinese tailor (Keone Young), a couple of hard-nosed police detectives, and a reclusive ostrich farmer (Brent Spiner). The film continues as a buddy film, but takes on a few elements of science fiction when the protagonists meet two groups of aliens searching for the "Continuum Transfunctioner", a device capable of destroying the universe.

Adding "save all of existence" to their list of tasks, Jesse and Chester trek onward. In an arcade, they discover that the Continuum Transfunctioner was a Rubik's Cube that Chester has been working hard to solve, and eventually does (thus activating it). Once the five lights had stopped flashing, the universe would be destroyed. Jesse and Chester must determine which of two sets of aliens, a duo of Schwarzenegger-like men and a group of self-described "hot alien chicks" is entitled to the device.

One of the groups protects the universe, the other is there to destroy it. Both claim to be the protectors of the universe, state that they were with Jesse and Chester last night (which Jesse and Chester still cannot remember) and ask for the Transfunctioner. The two correctly choose the men because they answered that the two got a hole in one at the 18th hole for a life time supply of pudding. At the last second, they deactivate the Transfunctioner, saving the universe.

Balked, the five alien women merge together to become a giantess (Jodi Ann Paterson) who wreaks havoc. The cultists tell them to activate the Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam on the Transfunctioner. However, the button that activates it is too far in to reach. Then, Chester remembers a nature show with chimps and uses a Krazy straw to push it, thus destroying the alien. The protectors erase everyone's mind concerning the events and time is reversed to the beginning of the film. The duo recover their car, salvage their relationships and discover just where all the pudding came from. The protectors leave a little gift for their girlfriends (and, indirectly, for the two young men): Breast Enhancement Necklaces.

• Ashton Kutcher as Jesse Montgomery III
• Seann William Scott as Chester Greenburg
• Jennifer Garner as Wanda
• Marla Sokoloff as Wilma
• Kristy Swanson as Christie Boner
• David Herman as Nelson
• Hal Sparks as Zoltan
• Charlie O'Connell as Tommy
• John Toles-Bey as Mr. Pizzacoli
• Christian Middelthon as Alien Nordic Dude #1
• David Bannick as Alien Nordic Dude #2
• Turtle as Jeff
• Bob Clendenin as Zarnoff
• Mary Lynn Rajskub as Zelmina
• Kevin Christy as Zellner
• Freda Foh Shen as Chinese Foooood Lady (voice)
• Mitzi Martin as Alien Jumpsuit Chick #1
• Nichole Hitz as Alien Jumpsuit Chick #2
• Linda Kim as Alien Jumpsuit Chick #3
• Mia Trudeau as Alien Jumpsuit Chick #4
• Kim Marie Johnson as Alien Jumpsuit Chick #5
• Jodi Ann Paterson as Super Hot Giant Alien
• Keone Young as Mr. Lee
• Fabio as the transsexual stripper
• Andy Dick as Mark
• Brent Spiner as Pierre

What truly happened to Jesse's titular car is never revealed. It was possibly lost or stolen. It was certainly impounded by the police, then accidentally tagged for auction by a bumbling police officer with poor eyesight. It was later sold at the aforementioned auction to a militant French ostrich farmer. Jesse and Chester are captured by the farmer for trespassing, but he later agrees to let them go and give Jesse his car. However, when the ostrich farmer arrives at his garage (where he parked the car 5 minutes before) the car has disappeared without a trace. At the time, Jesse and Chester were more concerned with getting their girlfriend's anniversary presents from the car, but the ostrich farmer tells them that the only thing in the car was a set of keys to a storage locker, which he gives them. Realizing the presents must be in the locker, the duo stop their search for the car and the plot moves on without mentioning it again.

When the climax of the movie occurs, the benevolent aliens rewind time so that everything resets to the events of the beginning of the movie, except this time Jesse's car is parked in front of his house.

How the car disappeared from the ostrich farmer's garage in the original time line and where it went is left completely unexplained.

• Dude, Where's My Car? at the Internet Movie Database
• Dude, Where's My Car? at Rotten Tomatoes
• Dude, Where's My Car? at Box Office Mojo
• Dude, Where's My Car? at All Movie Guide