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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Danny Leiner
Produced by
Nathan Kahane
Greg Shapiro
Written by
Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
Starring
John Cho
Kal Penn
Paula Garcés
Neil Patrick Harris
Anthony Anderson
Fred Willard
Music by
David Kitay
Cinematography
Bruce Douglas Johnson
Edited by
Jeff Betancourt
Production
company
Senator International
Kingsgate Films
Endgame Entertainment
Distributed by
New Line Cinema
Release date
July 30, 2004 (2004-07-30)
Running time
88 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$9 million[1]
Box office
$23.9 million[1]
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (alternatively known as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American stoner comedy film and the first installment of the Harold & Kumar series. The film was written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and directed by Danny Leiner.
The story follows Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) as they decide to go to the fast food chain White Castle after smoking marijuana, but end up on a series of comical misadventures along the way.
The film also features Fred Willard, 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, who plays a fictionalized version of himself.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Release
4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical reception
5 Sequels
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
Investment banker Harold Lee is persuaded by his colleagues to do their work while they leave for the weekend. Kumar Patel attends a medical school interview, but intentionally botches it to prevent getting accepted. Harold is attracted to his neighbor, Maria, but is unable to admit his feelings. After smoking marijuana with Kumar, and seeing an advertisement for White Castle, the pair decide to get hamburgers. After traveling to the nearest White Castle in New Brunswick, they find it replaced by "Burger Shack" but learn of another White Castle in Cherry Hill.
Kumar suggests stopping at Princeton University to buy more marijuana. Kumar buys marijuana from a student and they are discovered by campus security and forced to flee, losing their marijuana. Harold and Kumar resume their drive, and Kumar pulls over to urinate. A raccoon gets in the car and bites Harold. Kumar takes Harold to a hospital where Kumar's father and older brother work. Kumar steals ID badges to obtain medical marijuana, but after being mistaken for his brother, Kumar performs surgery on a gunshot victim and, after the surgery, the patient tells them how to reach White Castle.
Kumar spots Maria at a movie theatre. He decides to get her attention so Harold can talk to her, but Harold panics and crashes the car. They are rescued by Freakshow, a tow-truck driver, who takes them to his house to repair their car. Harold and Kumar are propositioned by Freakshow's wife, but after Freakshow suggests a foursome, Harold and Kumar flee in disgust. Kumar pick up a hitchhiker, Neil Patrick Harris, who is high on ecstasy. Harold and Kumar go into a convenience store to get directions and Harris drives away. The duo are then harassed by a racist police officer for jaywalking. Harold attempts to punch Kumar for teasing the officer, but ends up punching the officer, resulting in his arrest.
Kumar fakes a 911 call to draw the police away and breaks into the station to free Harold. Harold and Kumar flee. The pair encounters an escaped cheetah, and after smoking marijuana with it, they ride it. After encountering a group of extreme sports punks who have been harassing the pair, Harold and Kumar steal their truck. A police officer 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 reach their destination. The pair place their orders but are disheartened to find they have no money. Harris suddenly appears, and pays for their meal as an apology for stealing their car.
Kumar realizes he wants to be a doctor, but is afraid of conforming to the stereotype of Indians becoming doctors. Harold notices his co-workers pull up with two women 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 get them fired and humiliated if it happens again. After returning to their apartment they encounter 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. Kumar convinces Harold to go with him to Amsterdam to pursue Maria, reminding him that marijuana is legal in the Netherlands.
Cast[edit]
John Cho as Harold Lee, a second generation Korean-American man working at his first job in investment banking.
Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, a second generation Indian-American whose family thinks that he will become a doctor like his father and brother.
Paula Garcés as Maria Perez, Harold and Kumar's 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'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 University who agreed to smoke weed with Kumar
Kate Kelton as Chrissy, twin sister student at Princeton University who agreed to smoke weed with Kumar
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 as Officer Palumbo, a police officer
Fred Willard as Dr. Willoughby, medical school dean who interviewed Kumar
Robert Tinkler as J.D.
Anthony Anderson as the Burger Shack Employee
Siu Ta as Cindy Kim, student at Princeton University who has a crush on Harold
Malin Åkerman as Liane, Freakshow's wife
Dov Tiefenbach as Bradley Thomas, student at Princeton University who sold weed to Kumar
Gary Anthony Williams as Tarik Jackson, a philosophical black man in who has been arrested for being black
Gary Archibald as Nathaniel Brooks
Craig Stevens as Ralph
Jamie Kennedy as Creepy Guy (uncredited)
Ethan Embry as Billy Carver
Soundtrack[edit]
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle – Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released
July 27th, 2004
Label
Bulletproof
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle : Original Soundtrack was released on July 27, 2004. It contains 16 songs from the film.
The Princeton campus was used as one of the sets in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
Track list
"Chick Magnet" – MxPx
"One Good Spliff" – Ziggy Marley / The Melody Makers
"Yeah (Dream of Me)" – All Too Much
"Righteous Dub" – Long Beach Dub All Stars
"Skunk One" – Kottonmouth Kings
"Same Old Song" – Phunk Junkeez
"White Castle Blues" – The Smithereens
"Crazy On You" – Heart
"Cameltoe" – Fannypack
"Kinda High, Kinda Drunk" – Coolio
"Mary Jane" – Rick James
"I Wanna Get Next to You" – Rose Royce
"Hold On" – Wilson Phillips
"Ridin'" – Classic & 86
"Arrival at White Castle" – Heiruspecs
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Nicki French
Songs that are in the film but do not appear on the soundtrack include:
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" – David Kitay
"Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
"Ballin' Boy" – No Good
"Click Click Pow" – Lexicon (real song title is "The Official")
"Warrior Dance" – Zion I feat. Pep Love
"Fall In Line" – Phunk Junkeez
"Faraway" – Dara Schindler
"Gangsta Gangsta" – J. O'Neal / D. Black
"Girl From Ypsilanti" – Daniel May
"Let's Get Retarded" – Black Eyed Peas (this song is the unedited version of their "Let's Get It Started" hit)
"Looney" – Moonshine Bandits
"Mariachi Speier" – Eric Speier
"On the Ganges" – Matt Hirt
"Rock to the Rhythm" – Lexicon (actual song name is "Rock")
"Rock Your Body 2004" – Stagga Lee
"Ooh Wee" – Mark Ronson
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $5,480,378 in 2135 theatres in the United States and Canada. In total it had a worldwide gross of $23,936,908.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
The film was positively received by critics, with a 74% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 147 reviews; the consensus states "The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy."[2][3]
Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-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 same, with the difference being that the characters must be obsessed with unwholesome but understandable human desires."[4]
Sequels[edit]
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the 2008 sequel to White Castle. The movie revolves around Harold and Kumar trying to get to Amsterdam to find Maria, but when the two are mistaken for terrorists on the plane, they are sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Both Hurwitz and Schlossberg announced plans to write a third Harold and Kumar film, with Greg Shapiro returning as producer, and Kal Penn and John Cho returning in their title roles,[5][6] While Todd Strauss-Schulson directed the film. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, was released on November 4, 2011 in 2D and 3D.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
Jump up ^ "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle".
Jump up ^ "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - WarnerBros.com - Movies". Haroldandkumar.com. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
Jump up ^ "Harold and Kumar:Go to White Castle". Roger Ebert.com. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
Jump up ^ "Harold and Kumar 3 Announced - /Film". Slashfilm.com. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
Jump up ^ Siegel, Tatiana (2008-07-24). "'Harold & Kumar' set for third puff". Variety. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
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Ice Cold in Alex
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Ice Cold in Alex
British film poster
Directed by
J. Lee Thompson
Produced by
W. A. Whittaker
Written by
Christopher Landon (novel & screenplay)
T. J. Morrison
Starring
John Mills
Sylvia Syms
Anthony Quayle
Harry Andrews
Music by
Leighton Lucas
Cinematography
Gilbert Taylor
Edited by
Richard Best
Production
company
Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by
Associated British-Pathé (United Kingdom)
20th Century Fox
(United States)
Release date
24 June 1958 (UK)
22 March 1961 (US)
Running time
130 minutes (uncut),[1]
76 minutes (US 1961 Theatrical Version)[2]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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Ice Cold in Alex (1958) is a British film described as a true story in the film's opening credits, based on the novel of the same name by British author Christopher Landon. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, the film was a prizewinner at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] The film was not released in the United States by 20th Century Fox until 1961, in an edited version that was 54 minutes shorter[4] than the original, under the title Desert Attack.[5]
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Awards
5 Lager
6 Music
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
Captain Anson (John Mills) is the officer commanding a British RASC Motor Ambulance Company. During the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War when it is apparent that Tobruk is about to be besieged by the German Afrika Korps, Anson and most of his unit are ordered to evacuate to Alexandria. During the evacuation, Anson who is suffering from battle fatigue and alcoholism, MSM Tom Pugh (Harry Andrews), and two nurses, Diana Murdoch (Sylvia Syms) and Denise Norton (Diane Clare) become separated and in an Austin K2/Y ambulance, nicknamed 'Katy',[Note 1] decide to drive across the desert back to British lines.
As they depart they come across an Afrikaner South African officer, Captain van der Poel (Anthony Quayle), who carries a large pack, to which he seems very attached. After the South African shows Anson two bottles of gin in his backpack, van der Poel persuades Anson to let him join them in their drive to the safety of the British lines in Alexandria, Egypt.
Anson motivates himself by thinking of the ice cold lager he will order when they finally reach the safety of Alexandria – the 'Alex' of the title. En route, the group meets with various obstacles, including a minefield, a broken suspension spring (during its replacement, van der Poel's great strength saves the group when he supports "Katy" on his back when the jack collapses), and the dangerous terrain of the Qattara Depression.
Twice the group encounters motorised elements of the advancing Afrika Korps; in one encounter they are fired upon, and Norton is fatally wounded. Van der Poel, who claims to have learned German while working in South West Africa, is able to talk the Germans into allowing them to go on their way. The second time however, the Germans seem reluctant, until Van der Poel shows them the contents of his backpack.
This pack becomes the focus of suspicion. Pugh, already troubled by Van der Poel's lack of knowledge of the South African Army's tea-brewing technique, follows him when he heads off into the desert with his pack and a spade (supposedly to dig a latrine). Pugh thinks he sees an antenna. Later, at night, they decide to use the ambulance headlights to see what Van de Poel is really up to. He panics, blunders into some quicksand, and buries his pack, though not before Anson and Murdoch see that it contains a radio set. They drag him to safety. While he recovers, they realise he is probably a German spy but decide not to confront him about this. During the final leg of the journey Katy must be hand-cranked in reverse up a sand dune escarpment, and Van der Poel's strength is again crucial to achieving this.
Continuing their drive, the party discuss their conviction that "Van der Poel" is a spy, and decide that they do not want to see him shot. When they reach Alexandria Anson delivers everyone's papers except "Van der Poel"'s to the Military Police check point and (off-screen) reports to the MP's senior officer that "Van der Poel" is a regular German soldier that they met lost in the desert and has surrendered to them under his parole (word of honour). Anson secures the MP's agreement to allow the party to enjoy a beer with their "captive" before taking him into custody as a prisoner of war. The party then make their way to a bar and Anson orders a cold beer, which he consumes with relish. But before they have drunk their first round, a Corps of Military Police officer arrives to arrest Van der Poel. Anson orders him to wait. Having become friends with Van der Poel and indebted to him for saving the group's lives, Anson tells him that if he gives his real name, he will be treated as a prisoner of war, rather than as a spy (which would mean execution by firing squad). Van der Poel admits to being Hauptmann Otto Lutz, an engineering officer with the 21st Panzer Division. Pugh notices that Lutz is still wearing fake South African dog tags and rips them off before the police see them. Lutz, after saying his farewells and concluding that they were "all against the desert, the greater enemy", is driven away, with a new respect for the British.
Cast[edit]
John Mills as Captain Anson
Sylvia Syms as Sister Diana Murdoch
Anthony Quayle as Captain van der Poel/Hauptmann Otto Lutz
Harry Andrews as RSM Tom Pugh
Diane Clare as Sister Denise Norton
Richard Leech as Captain Crosbie
Liam Redmond as Brigadier, Deputy Director Medical Services
Allan Cuthbertson as the Brigadier's Staff Officer
David Lodge as CMP Captain (tank trap)
Michael Nightingale as CMP Captain (checkpoint)
Basil Hoskins as CMP Lieutenant (Alexandria)
Walter Gotell as 1st German Officer
Frederick Jaeger as 2nd German Officer
Richard Marner as German Guard
Peter Arne as British LRDG officer at Qara Oasis
Paul Stassino as the barman
Production[edit]
The film was based on a series of articles written for the Saturday Evening Post published in book form in 1957. The script made a number of key changes from the novel.[6]
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but the producers had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict. Sylvia Syms (Sister Murdoch) said in a 2011 interview about the film that conditions during the desert shoot were so difficult it felt like they were actually in the situation the film portrays. She said: "You may find this hard to believe, but there was very little acting. It was horrible. We became those people ... we were those people". She said that today people would probably call it method acting, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'."
Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit".
The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at Elstree[7]) and was "very tough" on Quayle and Mills. Syms said the producers got a good deal out of her for "£30 a week", adding: "But I made a lot more when they turned it into an advert for Carlsberg". She said there are "no false heroics in it" and that she had been told by desert war veterans it is a good picture of soldiers in that theatre of war, adding: "I am proud of it".[8]
Awards[edit]
The film won multiple awards:[9]
Winner FIPRESCI Award Berlin International Film Festival
Nominated Golden Bear Berlin International Film Festival
Lager[edit]
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The final scene, in which Mills' character finally gets his glass of lager, was reportedly filmed some weeks after the rest of the film, at Elstree. Real lager had to be used to "look right", and Mills had to drink numerous glasses full until the shots were finished, and was "a little 'heady'" by the end.
Sylvia Syms has said that the Danish beer Carlsberg was chosen because they could never have been seen to be drinking a German lager, since the United Kingdom and Germany are at war during the film. The beer referred to in the original novel is Rheingold, which, despite its German name, is American.
Scenes from the film were used in a late-1980s television advertising campaign for the German Holsten Pils lager. Each advertisement mixed original footage from a different old film (another example was The Great Escape (1963)) with new humorous material starring British comedian Griff Rhys Jones and finishing with the slogan: "A Holsten Pils Production". In retaliation, rival Carlsberg simply lifted the segment in which Mills contemplates the freshly poured lager in the clearly Carlsberg-branded glass, before downing it in one go and declaring, "Worth waiting for!" This was followed by a variation in the usual Carlsberg tagline: "Still probably the best lager in the world."
Music[edit]
In a break with previous films by Associated British Pictures, the producer and editor used a minimum of incidental music.[10] Leighton Lucas wrote a stirring military march called "The Road to Alex", which was the main theme, and a "Romance".[11]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ These vehicles were commonly known as "Katys" or "Katies" during their wartime service.[citation needed]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ BBFC.co.uk: Running times for "Ice Cold in Alex" Retrieved 24 May 2015
Jump up ^ IMDb.com: Running times for "Ice Cold in Alex" Retrieved 24 May 2015[unreliable source?]
Jump up ^ "Awards for 'Ice Cold in Alex'". IMDb. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Running times for 'Ice Cold in Alex'". IMDb. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Release dates for 'Ice Cold in Alex'". IMDb. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
Jump up ^ British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference By Sue Harper, Vincent Porter p 88-89
Jump up ^ Warren, Patricia (2001). British Film Studios: An Illustrated History. London: B. T. Batsford. p. 73.
Jump up ^ http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/Film/Details/dff85f52-83f0-4618-9021-9e85016ae885
Jump up ^ "Awards for 'Ice Cold in Alex'". IMDb. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
Jump up ^ Ashby, Justine & Higson, Andrew (Editors) (2000). British Cinema Past and Present. Routledge. pp. 162–3. ISBN 978-0-415-22061-3. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Jump up ^ Scowcroft, Philip L. "A MUSICAL ALL-ROUNDER: LEIGHTON LUCAS (1903–1982)". The Robert Farnon Society. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010.
External links[edit]
Ice Cold in Alex on IMDb
"Stills and film clips from the British Film Institute archive". ScreenOnline.org.
"Film poster showing list of stars, etc". BritishPictures.com.
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Films directed by J. Lee Thompson
Murder Without Crime (1950)
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Yield to the Night (1956)
The Good Companions (1957)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
North West Frontier (1959)
No Trees in the Street (1959)
Tiger Bay (1959)
I Aim at the Stars (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
Return from the Ashes (1965)
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
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