House Party 3 | |
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Directed by | Eric Meza |
Produced by | Carl Craig Cindy Hornickel Doug McHenry George Jackson Helena Echegoyen Janet Grillo |
Written by | David Toney Takashi Bufford |
Based on | Characters created by Reginald Hudlin |
Starring | |
Music by | David Allen Jones |
Cinematography | Anghel Decca |
Edited by | Tom Walls |
Distributed by |
New Line Cinema Starmedia Home Entertainment The Hudlin Brothers |
Release date
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January 12, 1994 |
Running time
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100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $19,281,235 |
House Party 3 is a 1994 comedy film, starring Kid 'n Play and Bernie Mac and TLC. It is the third and intended final installment of the House Party film series. This was to be the last film in the franchise, making it a trilogy; however, a direct to video sequel, House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute, was released seven years later. This is also Chris Tucker's debut on film as well as the first film in the series that Martin Lawrence does not reprise his role as Bilal, nor was he mentioned. Also absent in House Party 3 are three of the members of the R&B group Full Force, who played the bullies in the first two films. A fifth installment in the series, titled House Party: Tonight's the Night, was released by Warner Premiere in 2013 and serves as a direct sequel to House Party 3, discarding the events of House Party 4 and features the return of Kid 'n Play, reprising their roles from the first three films.
Christopher, a.k.a. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his best friend Peter, a.k.a. Play (Christopher "Play" Martin) is dipping his fingers into the music business and attempting to manage a roughneck female rap act called Sex as a Weapon (TLC). Play books the ladies for a concert with heavy-hitting promoter Showboat (Michael Colyar), but when they decide to fire Play and hire a new manager, he has to figure out how to deliver them to the show or face the wrath of Showboat's female security force.