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Reid and Campbell have that effect on us as performers: we want to hear what they have to say when their guards are down, free of a party setting’s highs. House Party is especially good during scenes between just Kid and his love interest Sydney (Tisha Campbell) they have such fluent chemistry that, when Hudlin decides to put an ellipsis at the end of the sequence in which Kid walks Sydney home, we’re a little disappointed not to get the dialogue they had the entire walk.

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The movie maintains a pleasant hum that makes you happy to be with its characters you’re almost always smiling. (Some of that could also be attributed to the deadpan Reid, like mostly everyone else in the cast, being in his mid-20s during the shoot.) With his miles-high hi-top haircut, goggle eyes, and caricatured lankiness, Reid certainly looks the part even if he doesn’t have the goofy personality to match: he’s so discernibly thoughtful that he seems far older than his years. Kid is like the heroic main character of a video game working desperately to avoid forces who want nothing more than to stop him in his tracks. There’s even a botched attempt at a musical performance, made indelible by a surrealistically random George Clinton cameo, when Kid inadvertently crashes a hoity-toity outdoor soirée down the way.

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He has to painstakingly avoid his loving but stern father (the late Robin Harris), who grounds him when he receives word of bad behavior at school a trio of muscle-bound bullies played by (too old-looking to be playing high-schoolers) members of the music group Full Force on the hunt for Kid after an earlier slight and a pair of baldly racist cops who stop him en route to the gathering for looking “suspicious.” Kid simply getting to and later coming from the house party become comic set pieces in themselves. Kid will certainly be going some others, though, want to impede on his fun. But there’s an urgency that makes most people tuck away their reservations and say yes as their RSVP: Play’s parents are away on vacation, and if he’s going to have a blowout of a party it’s going to be now or never.

The invite, extended to most of the student body, at first welcomes pause for most - it’s happening on a school night. At the beginning of the film, Kid is invited to a house party being thrown tonight by his friend Play (Christopher “Play” Martin) it’s a can’t-miss event. Covers 24 hours in the life of a high-school student who goes by Kid (Christopher “Kid” Reid).