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03/26/09
House Party (1990)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:20
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: House Party is a light, entertaining teen comedy with an infectious energy.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Adolescent knaves Kid 'n Play -- two handsome homeboys from around the way -- are planning the ultimate house party. There's only one hitch: Kid's super-strict dad forbids the star student to do... [More]
Starring: Kid 'N Play, Full Force, Robin Harris, Tisha Campbell
Director: Reginald Hudlin
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Reviews for House Party
Top CriticThis is a feel-good no-brainer with a party-loving cast and flat-top hairdos you could play pool on.
03/18/08
Top CriticClearly this is no masterpiece, but as its US reception indicated, it is a product overdue in the market, and it compares well with its anaemic counterparts.
08/16/07
Top CriticCrude and cartoony but hypnotic in its infectious energy, this low-budget comedy about a night in the lives of some black teenagers is an auspicious debut from brothers Reginald (directing) and Warrington (producing) Hudlin.
07/18/07
Top CriticThe first--and best--of the three black comedies made of the same concept, this joyful picture was far less cloying than its white counterpart movies of the 1960s.
12/07/06
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01/29/05
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01/30/04
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08/22/03
No review available.
07/01/03
All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels.
05/20/03
Top CriticThis is the only House Party that counts.
03/10/03
No review available.
02/17/03
No review available.
12/06/02
What is most appealing about House Party, and what sets it apart from many movies in the same genre, is that there is an energy and exuberance, a joy of living being celebrated here that is absolutely infectious.
09/26/02
No review available.
07/30/02
good-natured, raunchy fun
07/29/02
No review available.
07/25/02
An aged piece of ghetto-lore that has become less black-counterpart to Heathers and Dazed and Confused than pristine example of serendipity in film.
08/14/01
[It's] fast-moving, never dull, extremely funny, and manages to touch, with lighthearted (and R-rated) profundity on almost every youthful issue you can imagine, including police harassment, teenage sex, the all-too-easy road to jail and alcohol drinking.
01/01/00
Top CriticHouse Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning.
01/01/00
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