Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
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23% of critics liked it
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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 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 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb of Chicago. This move shakes up the whole family, especially when Kate's memoirs get published and she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids, particularly handsome jock Charlie (Tom Welling), fashion plate Lorraine (Hilary Duff), and grown child Nora (Piper Perabo). Ashton Kucher stars in a cameo role as Nora's actor boyfriend, Hank. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Directed By
- Shawn Levy
- Written By
- Sam Harper, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
- Genres
- Comedy, Kids & Family
PG,
- In Theaters
- Dec 25, 2003 Wide
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Claudia Puig, USA Today
So calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.
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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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Cast
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Steve Martin
as Tom Baker
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Bonnie Hunt
as Kate Baker
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Piper Perabo
as Nora Baker
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Tom Welling
as Charlie Baker
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Hilary Duff
as Lorraine Baker
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Kevin Schmidt
as Henry Baker
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Alyson Stoner
as Sarah Baker
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Jacob Smith
as Jake Baker
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Liliana Mumy
as Jessica Baker
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Morgan York
as Kim Baker
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Forrest Landis
as Mark Baker
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Blake Woodruff
as Mike Baker
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Brent Kinsman
as Kyle Baker
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Shane Kinsman
as Nigel Baker
- Paula Marshall
- Steven Anthony Lawrence
- Alan Ruck
- Richard Jenkins
- Regis Philbin
- Kelly Ripa
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Ashton Kutcher
as Hank
