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• Friday | DVD | (20/03/2000) from £9.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (105.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a hood movie refreshingly free of the semi-seriousness and moralism of shoot-'em-up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Then unknown Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament. Sitting on the stoop of Craig's rundown home, the two hilariously confront a kaleidoscopic array of gangbangers, weed dealers, crack heads, prostitutes, scheming girlfriends and neighbourhood bullies--all of whom, it should be noted, come off as sympathetic even as they are being caricatured, a true achievement in the crass, "booty call" environment of 1990s African American comedy. --Ethan Brown, Amazon.com

• House Party 1-3 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £69.93   |  Saving you £-49.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  House Party: Kid (Christopher Reid) has three things going for him - a tall fade a wide grin and a way with women. But three equally powerful things are against him - trio 'Full Force' as the pumped-up punks who want to put an end to Kid's fun an over-protective father (Robin Harris) and the very beautiful best friends who want Kid to choose between them. What's a Kid to do? House Party 2: Hip hop heroes Kid and Play are back in action with a plan to turn a college campus into the ultimate party zone - in this music-powered funk filled comedy free-for-all. Original stars Kid 'Play (Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin) Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell return to break it down rap it up.... and boldly party where no movie has partied before! House Party 3: Yo Yo You're invited to the 'mutha of all parties! Kid 'N Play are jammin' again! When Kid says ""I do "" to marital servi--'tude 'tude is just what he gets -- from Play who throws his high-haired friend the bachelor party of all time; from Uncle Vester (stand-up comedian Bernie Mac) the original lady killer and most of all from his fiancee Veda who accuses her groom-to-be of hanky panky with his former babe Sidney.

• House Party 3 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £8.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (57.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This bachelor party's gonna bring down the house! Yo Yo You're invited to the 'mutha of all parties! Kid 'N Play are jammin' again! When Kid says ""I do "" to marital servi--'tude 'tude is just what he gets -- from Play who throws his high-haired friend the bachelor party of all time; from Uncle Vester (stand-up comedian Bernie Mac) the original lady killer and most of all from his fiancee Veda who accuses her groom-to-be of hanky panky with his former babe Sidney.