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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.
Dave Chappelle's stoner comedy about selling lab weed to bail out a friend who accidentally killed a police horse. Critics buried it in January 1998 — then VHS, cable, and every college dorm in America dug it back up. It's also the first thing Chappelle and Neal Brennan ever built together, five years before Chappelle's Show.
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.