Did you know that Meet the Parents, with Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro, is a remake? I just found out yesterday, while perusing through the filmography of Emo Philips.
It's an extremely low budget black comedy from the early 90s that got a very limited release. Some big time Hollywood folks happened to see it and thought it would be improved with a bigger budget and some star power. And of course they had to neuter it a bit as well.
Universal Studios bought the rights, remade it, and have all but buried the original. Luckily, the writer/director/star, Greg Glienna has it up on YouTube. That seems to be the only way to view it these days.
I just finished watching it. It's definitely a lot cheaper and more amateurish than its remake, but it's also quite a bit darker. Even if you don't like the remake, I would highly recommend it to any one into these kind of low budget oddities.
