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  Cheaper by the Dozen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheaper by the Dozen was made into a 1950 motion picture starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
Another movie called Cheaper by the Dozen was produced in 2003, starring comedians Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, but bearing no resemblance to the original book except that both feature a family with twelve children.
A sequel to the film, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 was released in December 2005.
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 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy-drama film about a family of fourteen, including the parents.
The screenplay was written by Craig Titley (screen story), Sam Harper, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow; the title was borrowed from the biography Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr.
His wife, Kate, (Bonnie Hunt) achieves her dream of having her book, Cheaper by the Dozen, published, so she goes on a book tour, leaving Tom alone for an intended two weeks with all the kids.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Cheaper by the Dozen (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheaper by the Dozen was a best-seller in the 1940s, and inspired a 1950 movie starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, who raised 12 kids with ingenuity and precision.
Tom Baker, the Steve Martin character in "Cheaper by the Dozen," has a good heart and loves his wife and kids, but that leaves him with a few promising character flaws.
"Cheaper by the Dozen" doesn't understand that kind of family; it's based on sitcom families, where the most essential family value is not stepping on anybody's lines.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031224/REVIEWS/312240302/1023   (771 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen Review :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheaper by the Dozen, a contemporary remake of the 1950 Walter Lang comedy based on the novel by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank B. Gilbreth, has lost a lot in its modern-day translation.
The characters in Cheaper by the Dozen are nothing short of irritating: The younger kids are smart-alecky types regurgitating lines obviously penned by thirty-something scribes, while the older, self-absorbed teens need lessons in how to deal and are impossible to sympathize with.
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 IGN: Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) Review
She writes a book on raising a dozen kids, and in the course of two weeks it's accepted by a publisher, printed, on shelves, and she's off on a month-long book tour.
Cheaper by the Dozen is presented in both 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen on one side of the disc and fullscreen on the opposite side.
Cheaper By The Dozen comes in an Amaray case with no insert, and it's two-sided, with the full screen and widescreen versions.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) -- Walter Lang - DVD
Directed with flair by journeyman Walter Lang, Cheaper by the Dozen depicts family life in a radically different way than the 2003 remake -- but it's every bit as engaging.
Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is one of the freshest, funniest and most enduring "family" films ever to emerge from Hollywood.
Cheaper by the Dozen was followed in 1952 by a sequel, Belles on their Toes.
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 Cheaper by the Dozen Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Whatever his reason for starring in Cheaper by the Dozen, Martin and co-star Bonnie Hunt do little but beam and shake their heads at the "antics" of their unruly brood, who run roughshod over everyone and everything in their path, including the audience.
Directed without a single ounce of comic flair by over-employed hack Shawn Levy (Just Married), Cheaper by the Dozen is a cringe-inducing mixture of tired slapstick and gooey sentimentality.
Cheaper By The Dozen starts out by painting a picture of the perfect large family—chaotic, messy, rowdy, yet supportive, caring, and glad to be alive together.
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 Favorite Resources for Catholic Homeschoolers - Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth
Video/DVD: Both books were made into movies Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 - one of our family's favorites - a real classic) and Belles on their Toes (1952 - diverts more from the book and has taken the form of a musical).
www.love2learn.net /history/dozen.htm   (446 words)

  
 Cheaper & Belles
"Cheaper by the Dozen" on December 25, 2003.
Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on their Toes were authored by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
Cheaper and Belles were adapted for stage and their popularity is ongoing.
cheaperbelles.tripod.com   (202 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen
In this 2003 reinvention, the family is coyly named Baker (as in "baker's dozen" or always having "a bun in the oven"?).
Meanwhile Hunt, in her spare time (oookayy...) has written "Cheaper by the Dozen," a book chronicling life with 12 children, and she finds herself with a publisher and a promotional tour.
Although this cinematic trip is a familiar one, "Cheaper by the Dozen" deserves credit for reinforcing the well-worn theme of the importance of family-even if swinging from the chandelier and frogs in the eggs are part of the equation.
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 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - movie reviews and information | AccessAtlanta
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - movie reviews and information
All this time you thought "Cheaper by the Dozen" referred to the number of kids in Steve Martin's movie family.
The sequel, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2," obviously refers to the counting up of cheap pratfalls, inane set pieces and unfunny jokes that can be delivered in an hour and a half.
www.accessatlanta.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/C/cheaperbythedozen2   (318 words)

  
 Movie Photos: Cheaper by the Dozen
Steve Martin in Shawn Levy's Cheaper by the Dozen distributed by 20th Century Fox - 2003
Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen directed by Shawn Levy and distributed by 20th Century Fox - 2003
A remake of the 1950 film with Steve Martin playing the Clifton Webb part of the father of an extra large, economy-sized family, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is directed with gusto by Shawn Levy (BIG FAT LIAR).
www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2003_Cheaper_by_the_Dozen_photo2.html   (931 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Movie Review - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
Noisy, silly, gratingly upbeat, and piously sentimental, ''Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is what passes for wholesome family entertainment these days.
Any resemblance to the original 1948 bestseller ''Cheaper by the Dozen" and the ensuing 1950 movie has long been obliterated by the needs of the marketplace: The DVD player in your den is hungry, and this movie means to feed it.
A dad is a terrible thing to waste, and ''Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is one vast, cheery wasteland.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=8340   (669 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cheaper By the Dozen: DVD: Clifton Webb,Jeanne Crain,Myrna Loy,Betty Lynn,Edgar Buchanan,Barbara ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Simultaneously hilarious and sentimental, "Cheaper by the Dozen is a family comedy in the truest sense.
Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics) by Frank B. Gilbreth
Cheaper By The Dozen Is About The Gilbreth Family who have 12 kids (how unbeliveable) and their adventures.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00013RCAM?v=glance   (2423 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) -- Shawn Levy - DVD - Special Edition / Wide Screen
All this film has in common with the 1950 family classic is the title, the 12 children, and the fact that both films are in color.
There are the inevitable tugs at the heartstrings, as the standard-issue misfit son (teasingly called Fed-Ex by his siblings) runs away, and the increasingly estranged mom and dad learn that they cannot have it all.
This Cheaper by the Dozen needs improvement, to be more like the Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) and the book.
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 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
When a sequel such as "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" hasn't a single inspired scene to justify it, you know its whole reason for being is to cash in on the popularity of the original.
"Dozen 2" reunites the 2003 ensemble, including parents Kate (Bonnie Hunt) and Tom Baker (Steve Martin), and sends them on a Labor Day week vacation at a Wisconsin lake, where Tom competes compulsively with rich, aggressive neighbor Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy), who has eight offspring and a new trophy bride.
Martin flashes his wild 'n' crazy guy periodically, but most developments are abysmal -- frequent appearances by a harmless pack rat, Tom's doomed attempts at house repair and a few inevitable flirtations between the Baker children and the Murtaugh kids.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/movies/reviews/s_405868.html   (213 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen - Movie Tome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) / Belles on Their Toes
Married with 12 children, Kate and Tom Baker are satisfied with their lives, even though they both put their career ambitions on hold for a while.
However, a move to a new city and the increased demands on their parents mean that the eleven children remaining at home feel shortchanged and angry- and with the lively Baker clan, that spells trouble.
www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-7591/Cheaper_by_the_Dozen   (119 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003): Reviews
Cheaper entertains a broad audience by recalling an age of family filmmaking when that term wasn’t synonymous with crap.
Thanks to Martin and Hunt, who both have a seemingly casual flair for mining laughs from even the most generic lines of dialogue, Cheaper by the Dozen works better than it might have in less capable hands, but even they're challenged by some of the picture's forced mood swings.
I think cheaper by the dozen is the best movie ever i love jacob smith and tom welling i think they were costed perfcetly.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/cheaperbythedozen   (985 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen... 12 laughs!
In the 1950s there were quite a few of the old Sanitized Family Comedies that killed as many germs as they did entertain kids.
While Cheaper By the Dozen is based on both the real lives of the Gilbreth family and the original 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen, this Shawn Levy directed Ensemble film takes more liberties than John Ashcroft on Amphetamines and essentially makes the story a brand new product.
While this could be a big minus-sign in the rating column for this film, in fact, there are a lot of laughs to be had here, and there are a lot of moments where the kids in the audience look happier than John Ashcroft with Amphetamines.
www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /cheaperby12.html   (802 words)

  
 Extratv.com : 'Cheaper By the Dozen'
This time, "The Father of the Bride," is the father of 12 in the new big-screen comedy "Cheaper by the Dozen." The film is inspired by the 1950’s movie of the same name.
That is where Martin fails miserably in "Cheaper by the Dozen," in which he plays a college football coach left to care for the brood when his wife, Bonnie Hunt, goes away on business.
Check out "Cheaper by the Dozen," when it hits theatres December 25th.
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/12_03/12_11a.html   (220 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005): Reviews
What I liked the most about the second "Dozen," was another performance, the one by Alyson Stoner as their daughter Sarah.
A textbook example of how not to mess with success, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is every bit as forced, synthetic, banal and mawkish as the first edition.
The first cheaper by dozen movie was an example of the boring, ridiculous and non-sense American obnoxious sitcoms.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/cheaperbythedozen2   (1144 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
What I liked the most about the second "Dozen," however, was another performance, the one by Alyson Stoner as their daughter Sarah.
As a girl poised on the first scary steps of adolescence, she finds the kind of vulnerability and shy hope that Reese Witherspoon projected in "The Man in the Moon" (1991), which contains a first kiss so sweet you remember it 15 years later.
Anyway, "Dozen 2" remembers that kind of suffering, and the way kids are super-sensitive.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051220/REVIEWS/51214002/1023   (742 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Cheaper By The Dozen [2004]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B., Jr.
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt corral a wild herd of rampaging children in Cheaper by the Dozen, an enjoyable family flick.
Cheaper by the Dozen is not a great movie or an important movie or even a surprising movie, but it is a warm-hearted crowd-pleaser.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001K2KYI   (578 words)

  
 slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Cheaper by the Dozen
he only thing more outdated than Cheaper by the Dozen's soundtrack—which features 1992 pop hits "Life Is A Highway" by Tom Cochrane and "These Are Days" by 10,000 Maniacs—is its hokey life lessons concerning the importance of family over career.
Borrowing the title and premise (but little else) from a 1950 bore starring Clifton Webb (which itself was based on the melodramas of a real-life family), this kid-friendly Steve Martin comedy details the trials and tribulations of Thomas (Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) and their 12 kids.
This [motioning to his face] is my money maker." In this otherwise insincere, slapdash cheap excuse for Martin to revisit his Parenthood turf with a bunch of troublesome tykes and TV stars-on-hiatus, Hank's buffoonish sincerity is a welcome glint of reality.
www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=906   (276 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - Moviefone
Synopsis: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff and the rest of the cast of 'Cheaper By the Dozen' return in this sequel to the 2003 remake.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
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 Cheaper By the Dozen 2
""Cheapr by the Dozen 2," is not as ghastly as one might expect.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is A GREAT MOVIE!
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 Cheaper by the Dozen 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As in the first Cheaper by the Dozen (both the original and the remake), large family units are not only highlighted, they're praised for all their glorious pros and cons.
The camera stares as she offers an obvious double entendre, spreading her arms wide and inviting the Bakers into her home by saying, "Welcome to the Boulders." Later, both families gawk at the revealing top Kate is forced to borrow from Sarina.
Based on the overwhelmingly negative reviews it is receiving, you'd think Cheaper by the Dozen 2 was a shoo-in for "Worst Movie of the Year." Critics are lambasting its formulaic script and its predictable slapstick humor.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0002471.cfm   (1632 words)

  
 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was good enough that it inspired me to go see Cheaper by the Dozen.
In modern America, where the average family has 1.87 children, Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) have decided that life is better if not cheaper by the dozen.
As to Cheaper by the Dozen, forget this one until it hits the discount racks at the video store and enjoy the original.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /cheaper_dozen.htm   (2432 words)

  
 ’Cheaper by the Dozen 2’ - Catholic Online
Following on the disappointing heels of "Yours, Mine & Ours" comes "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" (Fox), another big-brood comedy, which, while boasting not as many tax deductions, delivers considerably more charm and family-friendly fun.
Steve Martin stars in a scene from the movie "Cheaper by the Dozen 2." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents.
Jimmy suggests that Tom pit his Bakers' dozen against his own Murtaugh litter to compete in a series of contests for the lake community's prized Winnetka Cup.
www.catholic.org /ae/movies/review.php?id=18074   (865 words)

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