![]() ![]() Fans of such youthful bawdy comedies or any viewer whoever got stoned and found themselves attacking those White Castle mini-burgers as if they were in gourmet heaven, should relish this dumb flick and not be taken aback by its questionable taste in both storytelling and food. It should stick around for awhile as a cult film it’s in the subgenre of American Pie or any of the Cheech and Chong films. It’s scripted by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who hand in an uneven work that is nevertheless winsome because its consistently silly humor (not for everyone) pokes fun at stereotyping, the American pop culture scene, and it does a nice job in its satire on the straight world. They are two brainy twentysomething weekend pot heads with hunger cravings for some White Castle burgers who go searching for such a place and the seemingly easy journey turns out to be a difficult one and becomes their life lesson. It’s all as serious as a White Castle slider.”ĭanny Leiner’s (“Dude, Where’s My Car?”) smartass, irreverent, gross-out comedy follows the nightmarish night through the sprawling interiors of New Jersey of Korean-American investment bank analyst Harold (John Cho) and Indian-American medical-school candidate Kumar (Kal Penn). Willoughby), Anthony Anderson (Burger Shack Employee), Siu Ta (Cindy Kim), Dov Tiefenbach (Bradly Thomas), Malin Akerman (Liane) Runtime: 88 MPAA Rating: R producers: Greg Shapiro/Nathan Kahane New Line Cinema 2004) ![]() (director: Danny Leiner screenwriters: Jon Hurwitz/Hayden Schlossberg cinematographer: Bruce Douglas Johnson editor: Jeff Betancourt music: David Kitay cast: John Cho (Harold Lee), Kal Penn (Kumar Patel), Paula Garcès (Maria), Neil Patrick Harris (himself), David Krumholtz (Goldstein), Eddie Kaye Thomas (Rosenberg), Christopher Meloni (Freakshow), Fred Willard (Dr. ![]()
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