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2004 US stoner comedy pic by Danny Leiner

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.JPG

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Danny Leiner
Written by
  • Jon Hurwitz
  • Hayden Schlossberg
Produced past
  • Nathan Kahane
  • Greg Shapiro
Starring
  • John Cho
  • Kal Penn
  • Neil Patrick Harris
Cinematography Bruce Douglas Johnson
Edited by Jeff Betancourt
Music by David Kitay

Production
companies
  • Senator International
  • Kingsgate Films
  • Endgame Amusement
Distributed by New Line Cinema

Release appointment
  • July thirty, 2004 (2004-07-30)

Running time

 88 minutes
Country U.s.
Language English
Budget $nine million[1]
Box office $23.ix million[1]

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Go the Munchies ) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and stars John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris. The start installment in the Harold & Kumar franchise, the film follows Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) on their adventure to a White Castle eating place later smoking marijuana.

Hurwitz and Schlossberg developed Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle based on experiences and people from when they attended Randolph Loftier School. The filmmakers received license permission from White Castle in 2002, after likewise consulting with Krispy Kreme; White Castle also contributed to the film'southward marketing entrada, releasing tie-in products at their restaurants. Cho and Harris (who portrays a fictionalized version of himself) were bandage early, whereas Penn attended seven auditions. Principal photography began in 2003, with filming primarily done in Toronto.

Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle was theatrically released in the U.S. on July 30, 2004, past New Line Picture palace. The film received positive critical reception, with praise for the performances of its leads (peculiarly Harris) and subversion of racial and comedic stereotypes. It was besides a commercial success, grossing over $23 million worldwide. The sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, was released internationally in April 2008.

Plot [edit]

Investment banker cubicle worker Harold Lee is pressured by his colleagues to practice their work while they leave for the weekend. Meanwhile, his roommate Kumar Patel attends a medical schoolhouse interview, where he is highly qualified but intentionally botches it to avoid getting accepted. Harold is attracted to his neighbour, Maria, but is unable to admit his feelings. After smoking marijuana and seeing an advertisement for White Castle, the pair decide to get its hamburgers. Later traveling to the nearest White Castle in New Brunswick, they detect it replaced by "Burger Shack". The drive-thru employee informs them of another White Castle in Cherry Loma.

Kumar suggests stopping at Princeton Academy to buy more than marijuana. Kumar buys marijuana from one of the students and they are discovered past campus security and forced to flee, losing their marijuana. They resume their drive, and when Kumar pulls over to urinate, a raccoon gets in the car and bites Harold. Kumar takes Harold to a infirmary to check him for rabies; Harold is cleared, merely Kumar'due south father and older blood brother - who work there every bit doctors - meet them and Kumar's begetter confronts Kumar over his failed medical interview. Kumar fakes an apology and steals ID badges from them to obtain medical marijuana. However, Kumar is and then mistaken for his brother past other doctors and is forced to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim. To the anaesthesia of Harold and the nurses, Kumar effortlessly saves the patient's life in the nick of time; afterwards, the patient tells them how to reach White Castle.

Kumar spots Maria at a movie house and decides to get her attention so Harold can talk to her, but Harold panics and crashes the automobile. They are rescued by Freakshow, a tow-truck driver covered with oozing boils, who takes them to his firm to repair their motorcar. Harold and Kumar are propositioned by Freakshow'southward surprisingly alluring wife, but afterwards Freakshow suggests a foursome, Harold and Kumar flee in disgust. Kumar picks up a hitchhiker, Neil Patrick Harris, who is high on ecstasy. Harold and Kumar go into a convenience store to become directions and Harris drives away in their car. The duo are and so harassed past a racist police officeholder for jaywalking. Harold attempts to dial Kumar for antagonizing the officeholder, but ends upwardly punching the officer instead, resulting in his abort.

Kumar makes a 911 call to distract the constabulary and breaks into the station to free Harold. Afterward Harold and Kumar flee, they encounter an escaped cheetah. Subsequently smoking marijuana with it, they decide to ride it to White Castle. Harold hits his caput on a branch, destroying his laptop containing all the piece of work that he but completed for his coworkers. Harold and a reluctant Kumar make up one's mind to non proceed on their expedition, but after encountering a grouping of extreme sports punks who have been harassing the pair, the duo change their mind and steal their truck. A state trooper spots the speeding truck and chases them. They are trapped when they reach the edge of a cliff. Spotting the White Castle beneath, Harold and Kumar use a hang glider from the truck to reach their destination.

The pair place their orders just are disheartened to notice they have no money. Harris all of a sudden appears, having craved the food when hearing them talk nearly it and pays for their meal every bit an apology for stealing their automobile; he also further pays for "repairs". Kumar realizes he wants to be a doctor, but is afraid of conforming to the stereotype of Indians becoming doctors. Harold then notices his co-workers pull up and gets angry at them because they said they had to work with clients but were actually out partying. He tells them off and threatens to become them fired if information technology happens again.

After returning to their apartment they see Maria, Harold professes his feelings for her and they kiss. She informs Harold that she is leaving for Amsterdam, but will return in ten days. When Harold tells Kumar that Maria is going to Amsterdam, Kumar convinces him to become with him to Amsterdam to pursue Maria, reminding him that marijuana is legal in the Netherlands.

Cast [edit]

  • John Cho every bit Harold Lee, a second-generation Korean-American man working at his start chore in investment cyberbanking.
  • Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, a 2d generation Indian-American whose family thinks that he volition become a doctor like his begetter and brother.
  • Paula Garcés as Maria Perez, Harold and Kumar's neighbor, on whom Harold has a shell.
  • Neil Patrick Harris as a fictionalized version of himself.
  • Ryan Reynolds equally an OR nurse
  • David Krumholtz equally Goldstein, Harold and Kumar's neighbor and Rosenberg's roommate
  • Eddie Kaye Thomas as Rosenberg, Harold and Kumar's neighbor and Goldstein's roommate
  • Brooke D'Orsay as Clarissa, twin sister student at Princeton Academy who agreed to smoke weed with Kumar
  • Kate Kelton equally Chrissy, twin sister student at Princeton Academy who agreed to smoke weed with Kumar
  • Steve Braun every bit Cole, the leader of a recurring gang of five obnoxious extreme-sports-obsessed delinquents who often harass the pair or others around them.
  • Christopher Meloni as Randy/Freakshow, a car mechanic with infected pimples on his face and cervix who stock-still Harold and Kumar's motorcar
  • Sandy Jobin Bevans as Officeholder Palumbo, a racist constabulary officer who bullies Harold and Kumar.
  • Fred Willard every bit Dr. Willoughby, medical school dean who interviewed Kumar
  • Robert Tinkler every bit J.D.
  • Anthony Anderson equally the Burger Shack Employee
  • Albert Howell as Security Baby-sit
  • Angelo Tsarouchas equally Mean Tollbooth Guy
  • Hashemite kingdom of jordan Prentice every bit Giant Bag of Weed
  • Siu Ta as Cindy Kim, student at Princeton University who has a crush on Harold
  • Bobby Lee equally Kenneth Park
  • Malin Åkerman as Liane, Freakshow's wife
  • Shaun Majumder as Saikat Patel, Kumar's older brother
  • Errol Sitahal as Dr. Patel, Kumar and Saikat's begetter
  • Dov Tiefenbach as Bradley Thomas, student at Princeton University who sold weed to Kumar
  • Gary Anthony Williams as Tarik Jackson, a philosophical black man who has been arrested for being black
  • Boyd Banks as E.R. Patient
  • Gary Archibald as Nathaniel Banks
  • Jamie Kennedy as Creepy Guy (uncredited)[2]
  • Ethan Embry as Baton Carver

Production [edit]

While living in Los Angeles, screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg decided to write a low-budget stoner film and base the main characters on their high school friends from Randolph Loftier Schoolhouse. They based the character of Harold on their existent-life friend Harold Lee. Hurwitz got the idea to base the movie around White Castle from his own experience craving White Castle burgers when he lived in Pennsylvania for several years. At the time, Pennsylvania did non have any White Castle locations and Hurwitz had to have family members bring him frozen White Castle burgers from New Jersey.[3]

The filmmakers received permission from White Castle in 2002 to use the concatenation's name in the motion picture.[4] Ane scene that depicted a White Castle beingness closed was changed at the asking of the company's director of marketing. The film was likewise supposed to feature a hunt for Krispy Kreme donuts, merely the food was changed to hamburgers when Krispy Kreme refused to allow the picture show to use their name.[5]

Casting [edit]

Hurwitz and Schlossberg included a role for Neil Patrick Harris equally himself in the script without request him first. Harris liked the script and agreed to appear in the film.[6] During casting, both Kal Penn and player Sendhil Ramamurthy were being considered for the office of Kumar. After auditioning seven times, Penn eventually won the function.[vii]

Pre-production [edit]

A few days before shooting the movie, John Cho knocked on Kal Penn's door and told him, "If nosotros're supposed to best friends, we'd meliorate start hanging out together." They went to go a beer together and under artificial conditions, began a real friendship.[8]

Filming [edit]

Harold & Kumar began filming on May 12, 2003.[nine] The film is gear up in New Bailiwick of jersey, just was mainly filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Scenes set at Princeton Academy were really filmed at the University of Toronto'southward Victoria Higher and Knox College.[10] The production design team had to build a White Castle franchise specially for the shoot since Canada does not have White Castle restaurants. During filming, Penn ate veggie burgers as he is a vegetarian.[11]

Soundtrack [edit]

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle – Soundtrack
Soundtrack anthology by

Various Artists
Released July 27, 2004
Label Bulletproof

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Original Soundtrack was released on July 27, 2004. Information technology contains 16 songs from the film.

Rails list
  1. "Chick Magnet" – MxPx
  2. "One Good Spliff" – Ziggy Marley / The Melody Makers
  3. "Yeah (Dream of Me)" – All Too Much
  4. "Righteous Dub" – Long Embankment Dub All Stars
  5. "Skunk One" – Kottonmouth Kings
  6. "Aforementioned Old Vocal" – Phunk Junkeez
  7. "White Castle Blues" – The Smithereens
  8. "Crazy On You" – Middle
  9. "Cameltoe" – Fannypack
  10. "Kinda Loftier, Kinda Boozer" – Coolio
  11. "Mary Jane" – Rick James
  12. "I Wanna Become Next to You" – Rose Royce
  13. "Concur On" – Wilson Phillips
  14. "Ridin'" – Archetype & 86
  15. "Arrival at White Castle" – Heiruspecs
  16. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Nicki French

Songs that are in the moving picture but practice non announced on the soundtrack include:

  1. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" – David Kitay, Richard Strauss
  2. "Babe Babe" – Amy Grant
  3. "Ballin' Boy" – No Proficient
  4. "Click Click Pow" – Lexicon (existent song title is "The Official")
  5. "Warrior Trip the light fantastic" – Zion I feat. Pep Love
  6. "Fall In Line" – Phunk Junkeez
  7. "Faraway" – Dara Schindler
  8. "Gangsta Gangsta" – J. O'Neal / D. Black
  9. "Girl From Ypsilanti" – Daniel May
  10. "Allow's Get Retarded" – Black Eyed Peas (this vocal is the unedited version of their "Let'south Go It Started" striking)
  11. "Looney" – Moonshine Bandits
  12. "Mariachi Speier" – Eric Speier
  13. "On the Ganges" – Matt Hirt
  14. "Rock to the Rhythm" – Lexicon (actual song name is "Rock")
  15. "Rock Your Trunk 2004" – Stagga Lee
  16. "Ooh Wee" – Mark Ronson

Release [edit]

Marketing [edit]

In the 11 days before the film'due south release, New Line Cinema turned a parking lot on Dusk Strip into a temporary White Castle. The restaurant served xl,000 burgers to patrons, including Quentin Tarantino, Farrah Fawcett and Jay Leno.[12]

White Castle launched several promotions in tandem with the film's release. The eating place chain featured drink cups with pictures of Harold and Kumar. They also provided free hamburgers to moviegoers attending the film'southward premiere.[4] Cho and Penn were inducted into the company'south White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame in 2004.[xiii]

Box part [edit]

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $five,480,378 in ii,135 theatres in the United states and Canada. In full it had a worldwide gross of $23,936,908.[i]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

The moving picture was positively received by critics, with a 74% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 148 reviews; the consensus states, "The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner one-act."[xiv] [15]

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sunday-Times awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote "One secret of fiction is the creation of unique characters who are precisely defined. The secret of comedy is the aforementioned, with the departure being that the characters must be obsessed with unwholesome just understandable human desires."[xvi]

Home media [edit]

The "Extreme Unrated" edition of the DVD was released on January iv, 2005. It includes special features like a mockumentary, "The Art of the Fart", "The Backseat Interview", an interview with Cho and Penn, and a making-of featurette nigh the Land of Burgers animated segment. The DVD as well features two commentaries: i by writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg and i by actor Dan Bochart in character every bit Extreme Sports Punk #1.[17] The film was re-released on DVD in 2007 and a remastered edition was released in 2008. The flick was released on Blu-ray on November xiii, 2012.

As of Baronial 17, 2008, the film had 2,878,770 DVD sales in the U.s.a., grossing $30,609,751.[18]

Sequels [edit]

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the 2008 sequel to White Castle. The movie revolves effectually Harold and Kumar trying to get to Amsterdam to notice Maria, just when the two are mistaken for terrorists on the aeroplane, they are sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention army camp.

Both Hurwitz and Schlossberg appear plans to write a 3rd Harold and Kumar picture, with Greg Shapiro returning as producer, and Kal Penn and John Cho returning in their title roles,[19] [20] while Todd Strauss-Schulson directed the film. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, was released on November iv, 2011 in 2d and 3D.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)". Box Part Mojo. Retrieved 2017-04-20 .
  2. ^ Goodwillie, Ian (October 11, 2013). "Navigating Netflix: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle".
  3. ^ Vespe, Eric (July 20, 2004). "Quint interviews HAROLD AND KUMAR writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg about Doogie and Battlesh!ts!!!". Ain't Information technology Cool News.
  4. ^ a b Cebrznynski, Greg (July 26, 2004). "White Castle on Promotional Journey with "Harold and Kumar"". Nation'due south Restaurant News. p. 20.
  5. ^ "White Castle rolls dice with picture show role". The Chicago Tribune. July 29, 2004.
  6. ^ Charaipotra, Sona (August 16, 2004). "Harold & Kumar'due south Neil Patrick Harris". People. Vol. 62, no. 7. p. 37.
  7. ^ Preeti Chhibber and Swapna Krishna (May 23, 2008). "Interview: Sendhil Ramamurthy from NBC's "Reverie"". Desi Geek Girls (Podcast). Event occurs at 20:50.
  8. ^ "John Cho, Harold and Kumar, Interview". The New Potato. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2021-xi-01 .
  9. ^ "Movie Co. News". Film Journal International. Vol. 106, no. half-dozen. June 2003.
  10. ^ Fleischer, David (June 17, 2008). "Reel Toronto: Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle". Torontoist.
  11. ^ "Kal Penn: Hungry for Success". Teen Tribute. June 1, 2004. p. 33.
  12. ^ Rushfield, Richard (August 10, 2004). "Farah Goes to White Castle". Variety. No. Vol. 395. p. 34.
  13. ^ Kim, Hank (May 31, 2004). "White Castle lands title office in feature". Advertising Age. Vol. 75, no. 22.
  14. ^ "Harold & Kumar Get to White Castle (2004)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  15. ^ "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - WarnerBros.com - Movies". Haroldandkumar.com. 2011-eleven-04. Retrieved 2020-eleven-12 .
  16. ^ "Harold and Kumar:Go to White Castle". Roger Ebert.com. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  17. ^ Howard, Brendan (November 28, 2004). "DVD Review: Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle". Video Store Magazine. p. 22.
  18. ^ "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) - Video Sales". The Numbers . Retrieved June iii, 2018.
  19. ^ "Harold and Kumar 3 Announced - /Film". Slashfilm.com. 2008-07-25. Archived from the original on 2008-07-30. Retrieved 2017-04-20 .
  20. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (2008-07-24). "'Harold & Kumar' set for 3rd puff". Variety. Retrieved 2008-08-02 .

External links [edit]

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