Cheaper by the Dozen

About Cheaper by the Dozen

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.

Shawn Levy's Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 comedy film. Its themes are brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, sibling, and aspiring actor.

Steve Martin takes the lead as Tom Baker, Bonnie Hunt as Kate Baker, Hilary Duff as Lorraine Baker, and Tom Welling as Charlie Baker. Released in December 2003, it runs 98 minutes.

The screenplay is by Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen. It comes from 20th Century Fox and Robert Simonds Productions. It is part of Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) Collection. The film began as a novel. In the United States it streams on Disney Plus and Hulu.

Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Cheaper by the Dozen, and The Irishman make useful companions to Cheaper by the Dozen, all filed under big family, family relationships, and husband wife relationship. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 3,030 votes and it carries a PG rating.