Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Anthony Anderson and Fred Willard. The first installment in the Harold & Kumar franchise, the film follows Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) on their adventure to a White Castle restaurant after smoking marijuana.
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| Running time | 88 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $9,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $18,000,000 USD
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- The pipe that Goldstein and Rosenberg smoke marijuana out of is made of a shofar. A shofar is a musical horn made from a kosher animal's horn (usually a ram) that is used on the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
- The movie poster at the end of the Burgerland dream sequence lists Maria's full name as "Maria Quesa Dilla". It also contains the tagline "There is a pinche puto in all of us."
- As a "thank you" for all of the free advertising the film gave them, White Castle arranged to have collectible "Harold and Kumar" cups at all of their locations during the film's release. It marks the first time an R-rated comedy is advertised on fast food containers.
- The real restaurant "Hot Dog Heaven" is only located in two cities in Ohio, Amherst and Avon Lake. The Producers had lunch in the original restaurant in Amherst one day and loved it so much they asked the owner to use the logo in the movie.
- Although they did not work together, Kal Penn and John Cho appeared in House M.D. (2004) TV show. Cho was House's patient in the first season, and Penn played doctor Lawrence Kutner from the fourth to the fifth season of the series.
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