The stars of "With Honors," the newly-released film on Harvard, returned to Cambridge last night to celebrate at a pre-screening party in the House of Blues.

Several students were among the ticket-bearing, glamorously-dressed crowd who waited anxiously outside the Blues Bar to mingle with Hollywood celebrities Moira Kelly, Brendan Fraser and Patrick Dempsey and film director Alek P. Keshishian '86.

The film, which was shot on location around campus last year, chronicles the life of a group of Harvard seniors who befriend a homeless man--played by actor Joe Pesci.

Kelly, whose credits include "Billy Bathgate" and "Chaplin," chatted affably with eager fans. She said she had "a great time" filming the movie at Harvard last year, and was glad to be back in Boston.

"Alek [Keshishian] is a Harvard grad, so that made it easier for us to find our way around," Kelly said. The only difficult part about filming, Kelly said, was--but of course--the weather. "We tried to get out on the Charles River, but there was snow and we never made it out," Kelly added.

Dempsey, star of "Run," also said he had tramped the well-beaten Harvard tourist trails. "I went everywhere I could possibly go," Dempsey said. "Wherever people took me, I went."