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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

2004 · directed by Danny Leiner · 88 min
23,093 feet · Prominence
1,356th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

Lifetime worldwide gross $24m, re-releases included; about $42m in 2026 money.

Rank4,609 of 11,051In 2004116 of 256

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise70

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Stoner comedy touchstone, franchise, meme.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7 from 215kWikipedia18k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 978 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 47 praise 70 legacy 52averages 56, placing it at23,093 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

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