Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

  • 23% of critics liked it
    (113 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (662,030 ratings)

Shawn Levy directs the family-oriented comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, a loose remake of the 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, which was itself based on a novel. Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Sam Harper, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Dec 25, 2003 Wide
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's not just a feel-good holiday movie, though audiences, especially youngsters, will certainly walk out of it feeling good.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    This is a movie that knows its audience and realizes it doesn't need much of a story to hit that audience, literally, where it lives.

  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

    Martin and Hunt give the production a mellow warmth. And Levy has cast an appealingly diverse bunch of kids to play the young Bakers.

  • Claudia Puig, USA Today

    So calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    We are not only asked to find the barbarian Baker brood a model of familial loyalty and unconditional devotion, we're also asked to regard with contempt everyone else who does not share the Bakers' unbridled consumerist anarchy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dead A


    It looks so fun to have a huge family! It was predictable but not bad. Hilary looked good as usual.

  • Jim C


    Kind of stupid.

  • Bethany M


    Feel good film. A definite comedy classic that will have you laughing your pants off.

  • Film C


    Yes okay a simplistic and enjoyable movie that is vaguely amusing. No idea why anyone on earth would want that amount of children but okay.

  • Bentley L


    Good family entertainment! Steve Martin is funny as always and the kids are good too. The story is good and believable and the jokes are quite funny. Yes, it has the cliches you see in movie with parents who deal with tons of kids but that shoudn't matter to the viewer.… More

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