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Genres:
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Comedy /
Family
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Director:
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Shawn Levy
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Actors:
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Liliana Mumy,
Alyson Stoner,
Kevin G. Schmidt,
Paula Marshall,
Morgan York,
Blake Woodruff,
Brent Kinsman,
Shane Kinsman,
Steve Martin,
Bonnie Hunt,
Piper Perabo,
Tom Welling,
Hilary Duff,
Jacob Smith,
Forrest Landis
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)111.5
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Plot Summary:
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Tom Baker is offered a headache as a Division Sole football coach and at once moves his spouse and twelve children to a leaft suburb of Chicago. The forward unsettles the children and they start to enunciate off the rails...
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen apparently means to celebrate family life, but it's as synthetic as a plastic Christmas tree. Not for a second will an only child find anything to envy about the Bakers of Midland, Ill., where a household of 12 children means that sometimes a parent cannot always address an offspring by his correct name. It's hard to imagine that director Shawn Levy and his writers, in reworking the autobiographical novel by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, intended anything but a warm holiday treat, but, if only by default, the film plays subversively.
It may have to do with the casting of Steve Martin as the family patriarch, Tom Baker. Like Robin Williams, Martin has a complex, multifaceted comic persona that often is at odds with the de...
Cheaper by the Dozen
Family comedy starring Steve Martin as the stressed-out father of 12 brats
Cheaper By The Dozen is loosely based on a best-selling memoir from the 1940s about growing up in a large family, so it's hardly surprising that it is so unashamedly old-fashioned.
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt are Tom and Kate, the parents of the Baker brood: 12 irritating urchins, the raising of which has necessitated abandoning promising careers as, respectively, a football coach and a sports reporter. That's okay though, because for the Bakers family is everything. When Tom gets offered his dream job coaching his alma mater football team, they uproot from their safe hick country town to the soulless big city.
It's not hard to predict what happens next: kids get bul...
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