In this touching yet hilarious comedy, Clifton Webb stars as Frank Bunker Gilbreth, a ... more
turn-of-the-century efficiency expert who tires to apply his exacting work standards to raising his children - all 12 of them! Based on the bestseller by children of ...
In this touching yet hilarious comedy Clifton Webb stars as Frank Bunker Gilbreth a ... more
turn-of-the-century efficiency expert who tries to apply his exacting work standards to raising his children - all 12 of them! Based on the bestseller by children o...
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Comedy superstar Steve Martin (Bringing Down The House) and film favourite Bonnie Hunt ... more
(Jerry Maguire) team up in this hilarious tale of two hard-working parents trying to manage careers and a household - amid the chaos of raising twelve rambunctious kids! With a crowd-pleasing supporting cast, including rising young stars Hilary Duff and Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly), this heart-warming hit comedy delivers super-sized fun and laughs by the dozen!
Steve Martin is funnier than ever in this hilarious sequel! Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and ... more
wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) bring their clan together for a memorable summer getaway. But their dream holiday turns into an outrageous competition with the overachieving, overzealous family of Tom's long-time rival, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy). Featuring all the original Baker kids, including Hilary Duff, Tom Welling and Piper Perabo, this supersized comedy is fun for the whole family!
Steve Martin is funnier than ever in this hilarious sequel! Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and ... more
wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) bring their clan together for a memorable summer getaway. But their dream vacation turns into an outrageous competition with the overachieving overzealous family of Tom's long-time rival Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy). Featuring all the original Baker kids including Hilary Duff Tom Welling and Piper Perabo this super-sized comedy is fun for the whole family!
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College sweethearts Tom and Kate both dreamed of having a huge family and fulfilling ... more
careers. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a sportswriter, Tom abandoned his hope of becoming the coach of their alma mater's football team, and they moved their brood from the city to the country. Now, after twelve children and a happy life in rural Illinois, Tom has been offered the chance to live his dream and coach the Stallions. No sooner does the family pack up and move to Chicago to pursue Tom's dream job than Kate's ship comes in as well; a publisher has picked up her manuscript based on her experiences raising twelve children. Of course, there's a catch. Kate has to go to New York for a few days, leaving Tom to baby-sit his clan. Can Tom hold it together with his kids who didn't want to move in the first place pulling him one way and the university pulling him the other.
Advantages: FUNNY FAMILY MOVIE /STEVE MARTIN!!!! Disadvantages: NONE REALLY -MIGHT BE A LITTLE TO SENTIMENTAL FOR SOME ,BUT NOT OVERLY IN MY OPINION.
You know when you go to the supermarket you always notice how it is so much cheaper to buy in BULK ?!! Well the same could be said for raising children !? the MORE you have ,the cheaper per head it costs to feed clothe and water them!! Well that is what Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunts characters Tom and Kate would say anyway!
CHEAPERBY THE DOZEN is a family film,with a FUNNY and HEART WARMING story .
Mum ,played by 'Bonnie Hunt ' and , Dad Played by 'Steve Martin', First met at university, Tom was a senior with big hopes of becoming the head football coach there and Kate was a freshman with dreams of becoming a sports writer.
Both Tom and Kate had talked about how they would love to have a big family both agreeing on 8 children to be exact ,from that point new they were right for each other.
Just a year after they ...
Advantages: Bonnie Hunt, if you're theed Disadvantages: Standard Hollywood comedy fare, if you aren't so shallow in your considerations
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It's not a great film, it's not a bad film. As a mild comedy it is a good success, and as a family drama it survives until just the last ten minutes before the gloppy sentimentality hits home. When it does, unfortunately, it hits home very hard indeed, but this is to be forgiven.
Cheaperby the Dozen has those paid preview thingies the weekend of Feb 7 and 8, and a proper release on Friday 13th. It's certificate PG for some cartoonish violence, vomit jokes and nothing else, really. It's 105 minutes or so, and feels just right, length-wise.
As a cinema film ~ 3 stars, not recommended, as it's so well-suited to home viewing.
As a video/DVD rental ~ four stars, recommended.
On the TV ~ four stars, recommended. It'll be a decent viewing for an afternoon.
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Flying back from Florida recently, the choice of films on board was I have to say was rather disappointing, but I settled for CheaperBy The Dozen, a light comedy starring Steven Martin, who I do happen to like.
Steve Martin stars as Tom Baker, who has been married to Kate (Bonnie Hunt) for 23 years, originally they had only planned for 8 children but somehow it ended up being 12 (ridiculous I know). They live their life in utter chaos in a small town within Illinois, a place where the kids have grown up, a place where they truly have made home in every sense of the word, although only 11 of their kids are still at home. They still include their eldest daughter Nora within the family unit, although she is reluctant to be drawn back in, with 11 brothers and sisters, can you blame the poor girl?? She must be sick of the noise, not to ...
A man and his wife have to contend with the problems of rearing a dozen children.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
26/03/2007
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
0142801009
Barcode
5039036030953
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive menu
Sound
Dolby Digital
DVD Description
Clifton Webb stars in this lighthearted comedy as a patriarch who has more children than he can count on both hands. Along with his loving wife, played with dry humour by Myrna Loy, Frank Gilbreth must contend with the problems of five fathers. This includes a mass tonsillectomy and the eldest daughter's adolescent crises; her lack of a date to the school dance is solved skillfully by dad, who takes her himself! Based on the true story of Frank and Lillian Gibreth's child rearing adventures as they were depicted in the book written by two of their children, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is directed with a refreshing post-war optimism by Walter Lang. Though the huge family must be run with a workmanlike, though comic, efficiency, it is dad's charm and love for his offspring keeps the family together.
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