Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle the Art of the Fart

2004 US stoner comedy film by Danny Leiner

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Theatrical release affiche
Directed by	Danny Leiner
Written by	Jon Hurwitz Hayden Schlossberg
Produced by	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 Entertainment
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date	July xxx, 2004 (2004-07-xxx)
Running fourth dimension	88 minutes
State	United States
Language	English
Upkeep	$nine million[1]
Box office	$23.nine 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 moving-picture show directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and stars John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris. The first installment in the Harold & Kumar franchise, the film follows Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) on their risk to a White Castle restaurant after smoking marijuana.

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

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was theatrically released in the U.S. on July 30, 2004, by New Line Cinema. The motion picture received positive critical reception, with praise for the performances of its leads (particularly Harris) and subversion of racial and comedic stereotypes. It was also 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 past his colleagues to practise their piece of work while they get out 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, simply is unable to admit his feelings. After smoking marijuana and seeing an advert for White Castle, the pair decide to get its hamburgers. Later on traveling to the nearest White Castle in New Brunswick, they find it replaced past "Burger Shack". The drive-thru employee informs them of another White Castle in Cherry Hill.

Kumar suggests stopping at Princeton University to purchase more marijuana. Kumar buys marijuana from one of the students and they are discovered by 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 auto and bites Harold. Kumar takes Harold to a hospital to bank check him for rabies; Harold is cleared, only Kumar's begetter and older brother - who piece of work in that location as doctors - see them and Kumar's father confronts Kumar over his failed medical interview. Kumar fakes an amends and steals ID badges from them to obtain medical marijuana. However, Kumar is and then mistaken for his blood brother past other doctors and is forced to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim. To the amazement of Harold and the nurses, Kumar effortlessly saves the patient'due south life in the nick of time; afterwards, the patient tells them how to reach White Castle.

Kumar spots Maria at a movie theater and decides to go her attending so Harold can talk to her, but Harold panics and crashes the machine. They are rescued by Freakshow, a tow-truck commuter covered with oozing boils, who takes them to his house to repair their car. Harold and Kumar are propositioned past Freakshow's surprisingly attracting wife, just after 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 abroad in their car. The duo are then harassed by a racist police officeholder for jaywalking. Harold attempts to punch Kumar for antagonizing the officeholder, but ends up punching the officer instead, resulting in his arrest.

Kumar makes a 911 call to distract the constabulary and breaks into the station to gratuitous Harold. After Harold and Kumar abscond, they encounter an escaped cheetah. Later smoking marijuana with it, they decide to ride it to White Castle. Harold hits his head on a branch, destroying his laptop containing all the work that he just completed for his coworkers. Harold and a reluctant Kumar decide to not continue on their trek, but after encountering a group 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 below, Harold and Kumar use a hang glider from the truck to attain their destination.

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

After returning to their apartment they come across Maria, Harold professes his feelings for her and they buss. 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 get with him to Amsterdam to pursue Maria, reminding him that marijuana is legal in holland.

Cast [edit]

• John Cho as Harold Lee, a second-generation Korean-American homo working at his first job in investment banking.
• Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, a second generation Indian-American whose family thinks that he volition get a doctor like his father and brother.
• Paula Garcés as Maria Perez, Harold and Kumar'southward neighbor, on whom Harold has a crush.
• Neil Patrick Harris as a fictionalized version of himself.
• Ryan Reynolds as an OR nurse
• David Krumholtz as Goldstein, Harold and Kumar's neighbor and Rosenberg'southward roommate
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Rosenberg, Harold and Kumar'south neighbor and Goldstein's roommate
• Brooke D'Orsay as Clarissa, twin sister student at Princeton University who agreed to fume weed with Kumar
• Kate Kelton as Chrissy, twin sister student at Princeton University who agreed to smoke weed with Kumar
• Steve Braun equally 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 neck who fixed Harold and Kumar's car
• Sandy Jobin Bevans equally Officer Palumbo, a racist police officer who bullies Harold and Kumar.
• Fred Willard as Dr. Willoughby, medical school dean who interviewed Kumar
• Robert Tinkler as J.D.
• Anthony Anderson as the Burger Shack Employee
• Albert Howell equally Security Guard
• Angelo Tsarouchas as Mean Tollbooth Guy
• Hashemite kingdom of jordan Prentice as Behemothic Handbag of Weed
• Siu Ta as Cindy Kim, student at Princeton Academy who has a vanquish 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'southward father
• 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 existence black
• Boyd Banks equally Due east.R. Patient
• Gary Archibald every bit Nathaniel Banks
• Jamie Kennedy every bit Creepy Guy (uncredited)^[two]
• Ethan Embry as Billy Carver

Product [edit]

While living in Los Angeles, screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg decided to write a low-budget stoner film and base of operations the chief characters on their high school friends from Randolph Loftier Schoolhouse. They based the grapheme of Harold on their real-life friend Harold Lee. Hurwitz got the idea to base the film around White Castle from his ain experience craving White Castle burgers when he lived in Pennsylvania for several years. At the time, Pennsylvania did not accept any White Castle locations and Hurwitz had to have family unit members bring him frozen White Castle burgers from New Jersey.^[3]

The filmmakers received permission from White Castle in 2002 to use the chain's name in the motion picture.^[4] Ane scene that depicted a White Castle being airtight was changed at the request of the visitor's director of marketing. The film was besides supposed to feature a chase for Krispy Kreme donuts, but the food was inverse to hamburgers when Krispy Kreme refused to allow the moving-picture show to employ their name.^[5]

Casting [edit]

Hurwitz and Schlossberg included a office for Neil Patrick Harris every bit himself in the script without asking him get-go. Harris liked the script and agreed to appear in the pic.^[half-dozen] During casting, both Kal Penn and thespian Sendhil Ramamurthy were existence considered for the part of Kumar. Afterward auditioning seven times, Penn somewhen won the part.^[7]

Pre-production [edit]

A few days before shooting the movie, John Cho knocked on Kal Penn'south door and told him, "If we're supposed to best friends, we'd better get-go hanging out together." They went to become a beer together and nether artificial weather, began a real friendship.^[viii]

Filming [edit]

Harold & Kumar began filming on May 12, 2003.^[9] The film is set in New Jersey, merely was mainly filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Scenes fix at Princeton University were actually filmed at the Academy of Toronto'southward Victoria College and Knox College.^[x] The production design squad had to build a White Castle franchise particularly 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 Get to White Castle – Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	July 27, 2004
Characterization	Bulletproof

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

Rails list

1. "Chick Magnet" – MxPx
2. "1 Proficient Spliff" – Ziggy Marley / The Tune Makers
3. "Aye (Dream of Me)" – All Too Much
4. "Righteous Dub" – Long Embankment Dub All Stars
5. "Skunk One" – Kottonmouth Kings
6. "Same Onetime Song" – Phunk Junkeez
7. "White Castle Blues" – The Smithereens
8. "Crazy On You" – Heart
9. "Cameltoe" – Fannypack
10. "Kinda High, Kinda Drunkard" – Coolio
11. "Mary Jane" – Rick James
12. "I Wanna Get Next to You" – Rose Royce
13. "Agree On" – Wilson Phillips
14. "Ridin'" – Classic & 86
15. "Inflow at White Castle" – Heiruspecs
16. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Nicki French

Songs that are in the movie merely do not appear on the soundtrack include:

1. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" – David Kitay, Richard Strauss
2. "Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
3. "Ballin' Boy" – No Good
4. "Click Click Pw" – Lexicon (real song title is "The Official")
5. "Warrior Dance" – Zion I feat. Pep Love
6. "Autumn In Line" – Phunk Junkeez
7. "Faraway" – Dara Schindler
8. "Gangsta Gangsta" – J. O'Neal / D. Black
9. "Girl From Ypsilanti" – Daniel May
10. "Allow'south Get Retarded" – Black Eyed Peas (this song is the unedited version of their "Permit'south Get It Started" hitting)
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 Torso 2004" – Stagga Lee
16. "Ooh Wee" – Mark Ronson

Release [edit]

Marketing [edit]

In the eleven days earlier the moving picture's release, New Line Cinema turned a parking lot on Dusk Strip into a temporary White Castle. The restaurant served 40,000 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 restaurant chain featured beverage cups with pictures of Harold and Kumar. They also provided free hamburgers to moviegoers attending the pic's premiere.^[4] Cho and Penn were inducted into the company's White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame in 2004.^[xiii]

Box office [edit]

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $five,480,378 in ii,135 theatres in the United states of america and Canada. In total information technology had a worldwide gross of $23,936,908.^[one]

Critical reception [edit]

The movie 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 Lord's day-Times awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote "I secret of fiction is the creation of unique characters who are precisely defined. The secret of comedy is the aforementioned, with the difference being that the characters must exist obsessed with unwholesome but understandable human desires."^[16]

Home media [edit]

The "Farthermost Unrated" edition of the DVD was released on January 4, 2005. It includes special features like a mockumentary, "The Fine art of the Fart", "The Backseat Interview", an interview with Cho and Penn, and a making-of featurette about the Land of Burgers animated segment. The DVD too features ii commentaries: 1 by writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg and one by actor Dan Bochart in character as Extreme Sports Punk #1.^[17] The film was re-released on DVD in 2007 and a remastered edition was released in 2008. The film was released on Blu-ray on November 13, 2012.

Every bit of August 17, 2008, the pic had ii,878,770 DVD sales in the United states, grossing $30,609,751.^[xviii]

Sequels [edit]

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the 2008 sequel to White Castle. The moving picture revolves around Harold and Kumar trying to get to Amsterdam to discover Maria, but when the ii are mistaken for terrorists on the aeroplane, they are sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention army camp.

Both Hurwitz and Schlossberg announced plans to write a third Harold and Kumar flick, 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 moving-picture show. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, was released on November 4, 2011 in 2D and 3D.

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Harold and Kumar Get 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 xx, 2004). "Quint interviews HAROLD AND KUMAR writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg about Doogie and Battlesh!ts!!!". Own't It Cool News.
4. ^ ^{a b} Cebrznynski, Greg (July 26, 2004). "White Castle on Promotional Journey with "Harold and Kumar"". Nation's Restaurant News. p. twenty.
5. ^ "White Castle rolls dice with movie role". The Chicago Tribune. July 29, 2004.
6. ^ Charaipotra, Sona (August 16, 2004). "Harold & Kumar's 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). Effect occurs at 20:50.
8. ^ "John Cho, Harold and Kumar, Interview". The New Potato. 2014-ten-01. Retrieved 2021-11-01 .
9. ^ "Film Co. News". Film Journal International. Vol. 106, no. 6. June 2003.
10. ^ Fleischer, David (June 17, 2008). "Reel Toronto: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle". Torontoist.
11. ^ "Kal Penn: Hungry for Success". Teen Tribute. June i, 2004. p. 33.
12. ^ Rushfield, Richard (August ten, 2004). "Farah Goes to White Castle". Multifariousness. No. Vol. 395. p. 34.
13. ^ Kim, Hank (May 31, 2004). "White Castle lands title role in feature". Advertizing Historic period. Vol. 75, no. 22.
14. ^ "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
15. ^ "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - WarnerBros.com - Movies". Haroldandkumar.com. 2011-11-04. 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 Go 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 three 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' fix for 3rd puff". Variety. Retrieved 2008-08-02 .

External links [edit]

• Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle at IMDb
• Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle at AllMovie
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle at Box Role Mojo
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle at Rotten Tomatoes
• Harold & Kumar Become to White Castle at Metacritic

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