On one side of town, teenager Scott is giving a party in the kitchen. On the other side his parents are getting drunk at another party. Scott lives in a typical American suburb. He is giving his party in the kitchen because the rest of the house is obsessively clean and has to stay that way. While Scott and his friends drink and chat, his anti-social brother and arch rival Steve listens to hard rock in the cellar. It is not long before all kinds of shit hits the smartly-polished fan. Someone falls backwards onto the carpet in the living room that Scott’s mother so cherishes. Scott’s girl runs off with the evil brother and his father has a quarrel with the father of one of Scott’s friends because he suggests he may be gay. When the drink has loosened tongues, the blessings of middle-class life burst like bubbles and leave a trail of dented cars, nose bleeds and – if anyone would take the time to notice – damaged lives.Kitchen Party is a rock ‘n roll comedy of teenage manners in which director Burns, whose earlier Suburbanators is also about the strangest of outer-suburban habits and social codes, shows himself to be a humorous observer of teenage Angst.
