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A 36-year-old video-game tester gets evicted and moves in with his grandma and her roommates, where he's surrounded by pajama-wearing grandmothers, a dealer named Dante with a pet chimp, and the crushing weight of being a grown man living with his grandma. Critics absolutely eviscerated it. Then the DVD turned it into a canonical stoner comedy.
Two best friends, one impossible late-night craving, and an obstacle course of absurdity standing between them and White Castle sliders. A modest $9 million theatrical release that became a genuine DVD phenomenon — and a quietly groundbreaking one: a mainstream studio comedy carried by two Asian-American leads, at a time when the industry insisted that couldn't work.