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Director:
Shawn Levy
Writers (WGA):
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. (novel) and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (novel) ...
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Release Date:
25 December 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Tagline:
This Christmas The More... The Scarier! more
Plot:
With his wife doing a book tour, a father of twelve must handle a new job and his unstable brood. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations more
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Dozen do it for me more (273 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Steve Martin ... Tom Baker

Bonnie Hunt ... Kate Baker

Piper Perabo ... Nora Baker

Tom Welling ... Charlie Baker

Hilary Duff ... Lorraine Baker

Kevin G. Schmidt ... Henry Baker

Alyson Stoner ... Sarah Baker

Jacob Smith ... Jake Baker
Liliana Mumy ... Jessica Baker
Morgan York ... Kim Baker

Forrest Landis ... Mark Baker
Blake Woodruff ... Mike Baker

Brent Kinsman ... Nigel Baker

Shane Kinsman ... Kyle Baker

Paula Marshall ... Tina Shenk
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MPAA:
Rated PG for language and some thematic elements.
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Runtime:
98 min | Germany:94 min (DVD version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:PG (certificate #40326) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/6 | Finland:K-3 | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | Norway:5 | Philippines:G | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Culver Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA more
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

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Trivia:
The real family had 6 boys and 6 girls. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Tom Welling drives the red family wagon up to the house you see an Illinois license plate. On the plate all the numbers are together. Illinois plate numbers are separated. more
Quotes:
Tom: She says she will help out here only if she and Hank can stay in the same room.
Kate: No. Isn't that sweet kids, Nora wants to have her own room. No.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#31.8)" (2004) more
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These Are Days more

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25 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
Dozen do it for me, 6 August 2004
Author: tqnohe from Catonsville, MD

Let's see if this film has all the necessaries of a modern film.

1) Classic title 2) Dad is an idiot 3) New script bearing no resemblance to the original. 4) Male lead cannot droll without instructions from female 5) Children are out of control 6) The man is incurably stupid 7) Mother is a wise saint 8) Father has no clue about his own home (have I covered that already??) 9) Large families result from irresponsibility

I saw and loved the original. I held no illusions that this would be nearly as good. In fact I knew it would require some updates. The world of the 1950s when the original was made and the 1920s when it was set are dramatically different.

The story is weak, the comedy is poor, the new plot is bigoted.

In the original, Clifton Webb play an efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth. In fact, Frank Gilbreth's principles are still taught in course on efficiency in industry. He was a real person. And a competent one. His son John Kenneth Gilbreth, went on to become one of the world's leading economists. To this very day.

In this one, Frank Baker (Baker's dozen ... get it? Hit me over the head with a joke why doncha?) is a small time football coach who is so inefficient that he can't get breakfast on the table and wipe up a spill at the same time. And it's hard to imagine his wanna be drop out son becoming anything but a bum.

The scene from the original where the woman from Planned Parenthood came to the door to humorous results was morphed into the yuppy neighbors, the Shenks, essentially scolding anyone who has or wants more than two kids. Tina is so obsessed with having only one that Bill is portray as sexually frustrated ... he ain't getting none lest she conceive again.

I grew up in a family of 13. While my Dad was not the modern hands on type, he was aware of where things were and how things worked. He could cook and do the laundry and get us off to school on time. And he worked hard to be able to pay for us all to go to Catholic school. He had to be efficient; every 18 months or so, Mom was squeezing out another sib.

We were well behaved. We had to be. If not, 13 children turn into the unruly mob shown in this stupid film. I knew other families like ours. From nine to fifteen kids. They were all self disciplined families. I cannot tell you how many people, my sister-in-law included, who have asked me if it was "that way in your house." People came out of this movie thinking that large families are rude and out of control.

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