Before “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” continues the celebratory run that eluded it during its initial release with midnight screenings at New York’s IFC Center in September, here are some highlights from the reunion. The event was put on by Kory Davis, a 14-year-old at the time of the film’s release who gave a heartfelt introduction about how he promoted the film at his family-run theater in Louisiana and has made a habit in recent months of resurrecting nostalgic hits from the ’90s and early ’00s in L.A.
Somehow, the duo got it together to make a film beloved by audiences and obviously all the members of its cast and crew, including John Cho, Kal Penn, director Danny Leiner, producer Luke Ryan, writers Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Chris Meloni and Kate Kelton who all gathered at the New Bev to recall making the surprisingly progressive cinematic landmark. How humble? As Hurwitz explained, “We’d get high every day and drive to Apple Pan because we liked that and we passed a bunch of hamburger chains and we were like ‘there’s a movie here.'” (Director Danny Leiner would note during his introduction to the film, he could barely discern the two writers when he went to meet them at their apartment on Martell Street for the first time, opening the door to find “a cloud of smoke,” adding “these guys were at the forefront of vaping.”) It was only a few blocks away from the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles that “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” writers Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz would pen the cult classic about a pair of stoners with a case of the munchies that only the bite-sized burgers could satisfy, so it was ideal that no less than 12 members of the original film’s cast and crew gathered there just a week after the film’s 10-year anniversary to celebrate the film’s unlikely success from the most humble of beginnings.
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