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Bringing Down the House (2003) 5.4
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5.4/10 from 23,684 users
Metascore: 39/100
Reviews: 229 user | 124 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com When a lonely guy meets a woman on the Internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to be with him, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life. Director:Adam ShankmanWriter:Jason Filardi |
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| Steve Martin | ... | ||
| Queen Latifah | ... | ||
| Eugene Levy | ... | ||
| Joan Plowright | ... | ||
| Jean Smart | ... | ||
| Kimberly J. Brown | ... | ||
| Angus T. Jones | ... | ||
| Missi Pyle | ... | ||
| Michael Rosenbaum | ... | ||
| Betty White | ... | ||
| Steve Harris | ... |
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Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison. See more »Genres:
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Rated PG-13 for language, sexual humor and drug material | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 March 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
In the Houze See more »Box Office
Budget:
$33,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$360,146 (South Africa) (8 August 2003)Gross:
$884,848 (South Africa) (12 September 2003)Company Credits
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Charlene Morton: [pauses]
[speaking in a fake Southern Accent]
Charlene Morton: Yessir. I'm gonna go on down to de pool wit' de children. Make fun of de white folks again.
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Written by Queen Latifah (as Dana Owens) and Mario Winans
Produced by Mario Winans (as Mario "Yellow Man" Winans)
Performed by Queen Latifah featuring Mario Winans
Courtesy of Flava Unit Records
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Trivia
Jason Filardi's original screenplay was entitled "Jailbabe.com". He had Adam Sandler and Angelina Jolie in mind when he first wrote it. See more »Goofs
When Charlene is trying to teach Peter how to talk dirty, his shirt is tucked in. In the next shot, one side is untucked. See more »Quotes
Peter Sanderson: [nervously] Don't you just love being our nanny, Charlene?Charlene Morton: [pauses]
[speaking in a fake Southern Accent]
Charlene Morton: Yessir. I'm gonna go on down to de pool wit' de children. Make fun of de white folks again.
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Crazy Credits
Thanks to residents of McCadden Place. See more »Soundtracks
"Do Your Thing"Written by Queen Latifah (as Dana Owens) and Mario Winans
Produced by Mario Winans (as Mario "Yellow Man" Winans)
Performed by Queen Latifah featuring Mario Winans
Courtesy of Flava Unit Records
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OK, so the white-yuppie-and-black-ghetto-person-joining-up idea has been used a number of times in movies, but the dialog between Steve Martin and Queen Latifah makes this one worthwhile. Probably the best scenes are Betty White's nasty comments, Queen Latifah teaching Missi Pyle a lesson, Steve Martin dressed - and attempting to talk - like a rapper (especially because of what Joan Plowright ends up doing in that scene), and of course, Eugene Levy's statements ending with "Boo". "Bringing Down the House" really does bring down the house. Completely silly, but fun nevertheless.
Who ever would have imagined Joan Plowright (aka Laurence Olivier's widow) doing what she did and saying what she said in the rapper scene?