Everything about Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle totally explained
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some countries as
Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a
comedy film released in
2004. The plot revolves around the two pot-smoking title characters, who decide to go to the fast food restaurant
White Castle after smoking
marijuana, only to find themselves on a series of comical misadventures instead.
The film was written by
Jon Hurwitz and
Hayden Schlossberg, and directed by
Danny Leiner. Starring
Kal Penn and
John Cho, it also features appearances by
Paula Garcés,
Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart,
Ethan Embry,
Jamie Kennedy,
Bobby Lee,
Christopher Meloni,
Ryan Reynolds,
Shaun Majumder,
David Krumholtz,
Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Malin Åkerman and
Neil Patrick Harris (as a deranged parody of himself).
The film was fairly well-received by critics, with a 72% "Fresh" rating at
Rotten Tomatoes,
The $9 million-budget film only grossed $18 million in 2163 theaters in the
United States,
(External Link
) then went on grossing more than $60 million in DVD rentals and sales.
(External Link) This limited box office revenue, with later success, might be indicative of future
cult film status.
Tagline: Fast Food. High Times.
Plot
The movie begins with entry level investment banker Harold Lee being taken advantage of by two of his fellow coworkers, who pour extra work on him so they can take off for the long weekend. Their reasoning is that because he's Asian, he loves to crunch numbers, much to his disgust. Kumar Patel, in the meantime, is interviewing for medical school admission and is passing the interview until he takes a call from Harold and spouts several obscenities in the presence of the admissions officer. He even admits to disliking medical school, despite having a perfect MCAT score, stating that he only interviews so his dad will continue to pay for his apartment. This results in him being immediately rejected for medical school. Meanwhile Harold has his own problems: he can't make his way out of his parking lot without being ID'd, can't park in front of his apartment building because a group of "extreme sports punks" always park there, and finds out that not only does Kumar trim his
pubic hair in Harold's bedroom naked (because Kumar doesn't have a mirror in his bedroom), but also uses Harold's nose hair scissors to cut his
ass hair.
While smoking some marijuana in their
Hoboken, New Jersey apartment that evening, they see a TV ad for
White Castle and decide to make a
trip to get some
hamburgers. Finding a White Castle ends up being more difficult than they imagined, and they find themselves on a chaotic
road trip full of drug-fueled,
politically incorrect philosophy. During their
quest for a 24-hour
White Castle their trip becomes more and more bizarre. Buying drugs from a college
hippie ends up being a mistake. It turns out he's a self proclaimed "business hippie" who grossly overcharges them. and
hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere. Harris plans to use his child star status to get laid. Harold and Kumar later see Harris flying down the road in the car he stole from them while snorting
coke off the
buttocks of a partially naked
stripper.
Happening across Harold’s unrequited crush, they discover that she also shares his love of
John Hughes’ 1980s
Americana films.
While planning to call the police to report Harris' stealing their car, the two encounter a racist cop who fines Harold for jaywalking even though there are no cars on the road, who insults them for their "looking different", and for their names. Kumar instigates an argument that results in Harold being taken to the police station for assaulting the officer (Harold intended to hit Kumar, but Kumar ducked and Harold clocked the officer instead). While there, he meets an African-American professor, who was busted, of course,
for being black, and he's told not to be angry at everyone, because the universe will sort itself out. After making a fake 911 call, Kumar breaks Harold out of jail and steal the "business hippie"'s huge bag of marijuana, which had been confiscated by the police, before returning to their on-going quest for fast food nirvana.
However, the quest grinds to a screeching halt after Harold falls off a cheetah they ride while high and his laptop (which he'd brought with him to finish his work) is destroyed, and now they must return home so he can start over.
After reaching a hot dog joint and having another encounter with the extreme sports punks, Harold decides that he needs to feel the satisfaction in getting what he wants, and he and Kumar steal the punks' truck, which also allows them to uncover the jocks' secret love of cheesy ballads, notably
Hold On by
Wilson Phillips which Harold & Kumar sing along to. They ditch the car after being spotted by the police and use a hang glider to get to the White Castle nearby.
In the end, the duo gets their "Sticks and Sliders" (60 burgers, 10 cherry cokes (5 diet for Kumar), and 20 orders of fries) and have their car returned by a repentant Harris, who pays for the meal as a peace offering and apology for stealing their car. As they dine on their burgers, Kumar observes that there are many kinds of “burgers” in America, and all he really wants is the right to enjoy them all.
As they prepare to leave, they run into Harold's co-workers, and Harold gets revenge on them by telling them to stop giving him their work to do and telling their girlfriends they contracted gonorrhea from a hooker. After this, the duo heads back to their apartments, there Harold finds the girl of his dreams in the elevator and ends up making out with her. Unfortunately, she's leaving for ten days in Amsterdam. They plan to follow her there after realizing that marijuana laws are not enforced there.
Over the credits, television reporters reveal that the racist cops were all arrested and sued by the black professor for racial discrimination and brutality, and the macho jocks were also charged with vandalism and possession of the marijuana that Harold and Kumar left in their truck. The final scene before the credits run to their conclusion is a "composite drawing" of Harold and Kumar- which in reality is a stick figure drawing of a stereotypical
Sikh man in a turban and a squinting Asian man.
Cast & Characters
DVD Release
The film was released in a theatrical and Unrated edition on January 4, 2005 and was re-released again on April 1, 2008 in an "Extreme Unrated" edition remastered in time for the new sequel, which opened in theatres worldwide April 25, 2008.
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