House Party

House Party (1990)

  • 96% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (37,810 ratings)

House Party is an infectious, engaging comedy starring the rap duo Kid 'N Play. Kid (Christopher Reid) decides to throw a party where he plans to blow the roof off the joint with his rhyming skills, so he and his friend Play (Christopher Martin) throw a huge party while Play's parents are… More

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Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 9, 1990 Wide
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Clearly 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.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    [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.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    There's a lot more energy and social reality in this picture than one is accustomed to finding in teen exploitation movies; the cutting is often dynamic, and Hudlin generally does a good job of keeping things moving.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Entertaining and terrible funny.

  • Dean !


    Ah this was a great funny film when I saw it years ago about a big house party. It is very funny in places.

  • Lenny M


    Good lines

  • Jason S


    I liked it. This was what you wanted your parties to be like when I was younger. They never were though and it was never as easy to hook up with the girls as this movie made it look. There were some really funny parts and a lot of them included Robin Harris. He was a comic that… More

  • danny d


    classic. i worked on that dance move at the end for months. fun movie

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