House Party

House Party is a 1990 comedy film released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kid and Play of the popular hip hop duo Kid n' Play, and also stars Paul Anthony, Bow-Legged Lou, and B-Fine from Full Force, and Robin Harris. Other featured actors in the film include Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, A.J. Johnson, and John Witherspoon. The film was written and directed by Reginald Hudlin, based on his Harvard University film school thesis. House Party debuted at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won two awards in the Dramatic category: the Filmmakers Trophy and the Excellence in Cinematography Award. While in their high school cafeteria, Play (Christopher "Play" Martin) announces to his friends Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) and Bilal (Martin Lawrence) that he'll be having a party at his house that night, as his parents Ishmel and Tajahi are out of town. The reluctant Bilal is to be the DJ. When Kid comes home, he tries to convince his father, "Pop" (Robin Harris) to let him... full article at wikipedia