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Cheaper by the DozenTheatrical release posterDirected byProduced byScreenplay byStory byBased on by StarringMusic byCinematographyJonathan BrownEdited byProduction company Distributed by20th Century FoxRelease dateRunning time99 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$40 millionBox office$190.2 millionCheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American directed by , and stars and . It is a of the . The film was released on December 25, 2003, by and grossed $190.2 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. The critical consensus criticizes its lack of humor. A sequel, , was released in the United States on December 21, 2005. Both films were inspired by the real life Gilbreth family and the semi-autobiographical account of their lives as written in by and his sister nee Ernestine Moller Gilbreth.

Contents Plot[] Tom Baker is a football coach at a small rural college in , where he raised twelve children, and his wife, Kate, has written her story in a book and hopes to send it to her friend to publish the book. One day, Tom unexpectedly receives an offer from his old friend and football teammate Shake McGuire to coach at his alma mater in his hometown of . Tom accepts the offer, and demands all the children vote on moving. Despite losing the vote, Tom has the entire family return to Evanston for a better home and space. The atmosphere at the Bakers' new house is tense and the situation at school is even worse.

When her book is ready to pick up for publication, Kate is required to do a national book tour to promote it. Tom thinks that he can handle everything in the family's household while Kate is away, so he decides to hire the family's oldest child, Nora, and her self-absorbed boyfriend, Hank, to manage the children. When Nora and Hank arrive, the children plan to make Hank the target of their prank by soaking his underwear in meat and assisting the Bakers' pet dog, Gunner, to attack him by biting his buttocks, prompting him to refuse to assist in babysitting. As a result, Nora drives off with Hank, while Tom lectures them for their prank. After Kate departs for her book tour, Tom realizes that he cannot handle the children on his own after a chaotic night. In reply to this revelation, Tom tries to hire a housekeeper, but nobody is willing to work with a family as large as the Bakers, so Tom decides to bring the football players from work into the family's house for game practicing in the living room to prepare for the Saturday night football game as the children perform chores and their household games. However, the children start causing trouble at school and Charlie, the Bakers' oldest son, is removed from the football team. Kate overhears from the children about the chaos and cancels the book tour to take charge of the situation. Kate's publisher decides to create an additional promotion for her book by inviting to tape a segment about the Bakers in their home instead.

Despite much coaching from Kate, the Bakers are not able to demonstrate the loving, strongly bonded family that Kate described in her book. When Mark becomes upset that his pet frog has died, a heated fight erupts moments before the segment starts, leading the cameramen to call Winfrey to cancel it. Mark runs away from home, prompting the Bakers to find him. Tom indulges a hunch that Mark is trying to run back to the Bakers' old home, and eventually finds Mark on an train departing from to Midland. Reuniting with the rest of their family, the Bakers begin to address their issues with each other, and Tom ultimately resigns from his position at his alma mater with Shake.

Cast[] Bakers[] Others[] The film's director makes a cameo as a reporter.

Soundtrack[] "Cheaper by the Dozen" SoundtrackNo.TitleWriter(s)Performed byLength1.""Simple Plan1:242.""1:123.""Sum 412:464."What Christmas Should Be"Hilary Duff3:105.""Tom Cochrane4:266.""10,000 Maniacs3:397.""2:338.""2:06Total length:21:16Other compositions used in the movie are "" by and 's "", among others.

Reception[] Critical reception[] The review aggregation website reported a 24% approval rating based on reviews from 119 critics and an average score of 4.58/10. The site's consensus reads: "In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity." On , which determines a normalized rating from mainstream critics, the film received a score of 46 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Despite initial reactions, the film was given "Two Thumbs Up" from and on their television show.

Box office[] The film opened on Christmas Day 2003, and ranked at #2, grossing $27,557,647 in its opening weekend ($35,397,241 including its Thursday Christmas Day gross) and, despite being kept from the top spot by , went on to gross $190,212,113 worldwide. was nominated for a for his performance in this, , and .

Awards and nominations[] AssociationCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.Ashton KutcherNominatedHilary DuffNominatedChoice Breakout Movie Star – MaleTom Welling NominatedChoice Movie LiplockPiper Perabo & Ashton KutcherNominatedCast (under 18)WonForrest LandisWonAlyson StonerNominatedAshton KutcherNominatedHome video[] The film was released on VHS and DVD on April 6, 2004.

References[] External links[] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Gilbreth familyFamily membersFamily memoirsFilm adaptationsFilms directed by [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1] Retrieved from "": Hidden categories: Watch Hilary Duff & Cheaper By the Dozen Co-Stars Recreate Scenes ... MenuMoviesTV ShowsAwards & EventsCelebsVideosCommunity | | | | MORE SHARECheck in 5,9/10 286 user 111 critic Rate This0 PG | 1h 38min |, | 0:34 | Trailer | With his wife doing a book tour, a father of twelve must handle a new job and his unstable brood. Director: Writers: (novel) (as Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.), (novel) |» Stars: , , |» Added to Watchlist Add to Watchlist From Reviews | Popularity 1 589 ( 74) The acclaimed actor and musician goes deep on androids, UFOs, and the films she studied for Season 2 of "."



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Director:Adam Shankman Stars:Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff Storyline The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. Written by

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Motion Picture Rating () Rated PG for language and some thematic elements | » Parents Guide: » Did You Know? Trivia Robin Williams was considered for the role of Tom Baker. » ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Quotes : Hey, guys. Remember Shake? We played college ball together. : Yeah, the hot dog. [Tom gives him a look] : Mom said it first. : We're having adult time here, boys. : No idea what that means. : Well, it's this crazy thing where grown-ups actually get to have a conversation without being interrupted by kids. : Sounds wicked boring. : It is. So why don't you run along? : Mom's right. He is a weiner. » ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Soundtracks What Christmas Should Be Written by and Performed by Courtesy of Hollywood Records/Buena Vista Records » User Reviews Another PG-rated family comedy that forgets about the laughs 4 July 2010 | by – I rented this movie just yesterday, knowing that Steve Martin was in it, but not knowing that it was a remake of a movie from 1950 and both films were adapted from a book of the same name, until after I came home from the video store and looked it up. So, I obviously can't say I've ever read the book or seen the original film adaptation, but I'm thinking they're both better liked than this remake. Before watching this 2003 version, I knew that it certainly didn't have the worst reputation a comedy film can have, but also knew that it generally wasn't considered that great, so I didn't have very high expectations. Still, I thought it could turn out to be a mixed blessing, with some really funny parts and some unfunny ones, but I didn't even get that.

Tom and Kate Baker both wanted eight kids when they got married, but due to several factors, they have ended up with twelve! They now live in a large rural home in Midland, Indiana with their offspring. When Tom gets an offer to coach the Stallions, meaning he will get to fulfill his old dream of being a head football coach, he happily takes it, but this means the family will have to move to Chicago, which none of the twelve siblings are happy about. Nonetheless, the family does move, into another large house in a Chicago suburb, and this causes some dysfunction. Kate's dream also comes true when she is informed that the book she has written will be published. She has to go to New York to promote her book, leaving Tom to look after all the kids on his own, and he soon finds that it is VERY difficult trying to keep them under control! It also looks like Kate will be gone longer than originally expected for a book tour!

Showing Tom Baker (Steve Martin's character) jogging home, the film is off to a mediocre start. It doesn't improve with Bonnie Hunt's opening narration as Kate Baker. It's certainly not very funny at this point, and the part about Tom getting a vasectomy is awkward in what's supposed to be a family movie. Maybe that part would have been slightly funnier if the movie hadn't been billed as family. One memorably lame joke is one of the Baker kids being told that body parts don't count for show-and-tell. In fact, this part is perhaps a little disturbing! There are some occasional mildly amusing moments in this version of "Cheaper by the Dozen", but for the most part, it's very unfunny and boring, with the pranks the kids pull, such as soaking Hank's (Nora Baker's boyfriend) underwear in meat to attract dogs, other trouble the kids cause, etc. Another lame part I can't forget is the athletic cup covered in sauce, which one of the kids sees and thinks the sauce is blood, causing him to throw up!

This remake of "Cheaper by the Dozen" is basically just another unfunny PG-rated family comedy, and like some of the others, some parts might really make viewers wonder if it should have been marketed as a family movie. For the most part, this movie is cheesy and fairly forgettable, and it reminded me a lot of "Daddy Day Care", another no more than mediocre PG-rated family film which was released the same year. Apart from an occasional mildly amusing scene and Steve Martin's charm (he's not that funny here but definitely better than he is in "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"), there aren't many positive things I can say about 2003's "Cheaper by the Dozen". I'm not even sure if my 5/10 rating is low enough. I do intend to watch the 1950 version at some point, knowing it's obviously a lot different because of the era it's from. I will also be expecting the original to be better than this disappointing 2003 version.

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The classic 1950 movie Cheaper by the Dozen was based on a book that told the true story about Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their 12 children.

When the movie opens, Frank (Clifton Webb) announces that he is moving his family from Rhode Island to New Jersey. The kids protest at first, but when they see this beautiful Second Empire Victorian, they change their tune (wouldn’t you?).

Let’s take a look back at the house from the movie!



The “Cheaper by the Dozen” House

The movie was filmed on a back lot called St. Louis Avenue. Below is a photo a reader took of the house in the 1970s before it was razed:

They used the same House in in 1944:

Inside the “Cheaper by the Dozen” House:

Frank Gilbreth was a famous efficiency expert who thought he could run his family with the precision of a factory.

He had all sorts of time-saving routines for them that I wanted my own family to try after reading the book when I was a girl, but they weren’t as enthusiastic…ha.





After the Gilbreth family moves in, the mother (Myrna Loy) says the house was “too big for two servants” to handle, so they had a family meeting to tell the children they’d have to start pitching in. Times were tough!



After Frank dies of a heart attack, his wife and 12 children are left to fend for themselves.

There’s a poignant scene with Myrna Loy, alone and newly widowed, pondering her future without him:

One of the reasons I got this movie out to watch it again was because I had just re-watched the and wondered how much it had to do with the original.

The answer: not much.

The biggest difference was in the way the children were portrayed.

In the original movie, the children weren’t perfect, but they were well-mannered, respectful, and loving, even though their father is strict and demanding.



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