Bringing Down The House

Bringing Down The House (2003)

  • 34% of critics liked it
    (147 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (361,155 ratings)

A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a… More

PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Jason Filardi
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 7, 2003 Wide
Touchstone Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

    A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    You have somebody as smart as Steve Martin, and as smart and appealing as Queen Latifah in a movie like this. To have such an awful, offensive story is a real disappointment.

  • Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

    A comedy constructed from tapped-out ideas.

  • Jane Dark, Village Voice

    A Film in Which Steve Martin Will Appear in Full Hip-Hop Drag With Appropriate Slang for Not Less Than Six Minutes.

  • Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

    The material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bethany M


    A great feel good comedy!

  • Wahida K


    This Movie reminds me a little bit of the Movie House Sitter?

  • Coxxie M


    please please god take Queen Latifas ego down one notch. did her parents HAVE TO name her Queen?? what did they think that would do to her??

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