Les Cousins Dangereux

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Les Cousins Dangereux (a.k.a Dangerous Cousins) is a fictitious film that appears in the television series Arrested Development.

Originally a French film by Francois & Gerard Sasterne, it is about two cousins forced to hide their incestuous love for one another because it is forbidden. The film was later remade by Maeby Fünke for American audiences. While the original received great critical praise (Tim Goodman is quoted on its poster as calling it "a ‘relative’ masterpiece of complex eroticism"), the remake proved to not be as inspired, trying to circumvent controversy by explaining that the lead actors might not be cousins. This action proved to cause the film to lose much of the complex eroticism of the original and was cut down to a length of only 52 minutes. It did, however, receive some commercial success when religious groups protesting the film's themes inadvertently drew curious viewers into the theater.