Cheaper by the Dozen
Directed by:
Shawn LevyCinematography:
Jonathan BrownComposer:
Christophe BeckCast:
Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Kevin G. Schmidt, Paula Marshall, Holmes Osborne, Rex Linn, Dax Shepard, Amy Hill (more)VOD (4)
Plots(1)
The Bakers live in a small Illinois town where Tom coaches the local college football team. The family's day-to-day life is marked by equal parts love and chaos pet-frog-landing-in-the-breakfast eggs type of chaos. When Tom is offered his dream job--coaching a squad at a large university--he and Kate uproot the family, much to the displeasure of all 12 children. At the same time, Kate learns that her memoirs are about to be published. Her agent whisks her away to New York to promote the book, leaving Tom home alone to handle the increasingly unhappy and hectic household, as well as his demanding new job. With all hell breaking loose at home, Kate on the road, and Tom's job on the line, the Baker family ultimately chooses not to have it all, but to love what they do have. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (1)
Cheaper by the Dozen is a run-of-the-mill family comedy for the mainstream viewer. A nice house with a big white dog, a likable mom and dad, kids horsing around and, of course, the message that family is the most important thing. More important than a career. Either someone is hanging from a chandelier or spraying white foam on someone else or clumsily doing some big thing and breaking all of the glassware in the process. Apparently no effort was made to come up with something new in the script. Why should there have been when these films require a minimal budget (no effects or grand production design) and can often make more money than big-budget action flicks? At least in the case of Cheaper by the Dozen, everything is professionally shot, balanced and thankfully brisk and short.
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