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| CHEAPER
BY THE DOZEN
Distributor: Fox Home Entertainment | 99 mins
Certificate: PG
Cast: Steve Martin, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, Ashton Kutcher
Extras: Yes
Definitely a family movie in every sense of the word Cheaper By The Dozen bears little resemblance to the 1950 Clifton Webb movie on which this has its basis, bar the title and the couple with 12 kids.
Steve Martin plays Tom Baker, middle aged coach for a high school football team living in a small American town with his wife and 12 kids
his problems start when he gets the chance to coach a big Chicago team forcing his generally unwilling family to move and coinciding with his wife
Kates first novel being published (she ends up spending time away from home on a promotional tour
the kids run riot of course). Matters come to a head when one of the Baker kids, Mark, runs away from home. |
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| Basically a movie about choices, do you follow your dreams or be faithful to your family ideals, Cheaper By The Dozen is full of slapstick moments and while its great fun
its also a very noisy movie.
While it does contain some high profile co-stars (Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo and Ashton
Kutcher) none of them really get a lot to do, save for a few scenes in which Kutcher (playing to type as
Perabos would be actor boyfriend) is attacked by the Baker kids. The movie really belongs to Martin (who seems happy making this type of family movie these days) and the kids. Albeit predictable this is still great family viewing for a Saturday night.
EXTRAS: A reasonable package including a whole stack of deleted and extended scenes, 4 short featurettes, a storyboard to screen comparison and 2 audio commentaries one from director Shaun Levy and one featuring most of the kids in the cast.
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