Cuando un hombre solitario conoce a una mujer en Internet que está en prisión, ella hace todo lo posible por demostrar su inocencia y comienza a causar estragos en su vida de clase media.Cuando un hombre solitario conoce a una mujer en Internet que está en prisión, ella hace todo lo posible por demostrar su inocencia y comienza a causar estragos en su vida de clase media.Cuando un hombre solitario conoce a una mujer en Internet que está en prisión, ella hace todo lo posible por demostrar su inocencia y comienza a causar estragos en su vida de clase media.
- Dirección
- Guionista
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- Premios
- 4 premios ganados y 13 nominaciones
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- TriviaAccording to the DVD commentary, the house in which Kate Sanderson (Jean Smart) lives is the same house from El padre de la novia (1991), also starring Steve Martin.
- ErroresWhen Peter takes Mrs. Arness, her dog William, and golf caddy out for a game of golf, there seems to be an extra player in their foursome. In the golf cart, sitting just behind the four, is a woman wearing a hat, taking off her socks. The woman is dressed exactly like Mrs. Arness. The woman then disappears entirely after Mrs. Arness takes a swing (she is Mrs. Arness' stunt double).
- Citas
Howie Rottman: I'd like to dip you in Cheez Wiz and spread you all over a Ritz cracker, if I'm not being too subtle.
Charlene Morton: Boy, you some kinda freaky!
Howie Rottman: Oh, you have no idea. You got me straight trippin', boo!
- Créditos curiososThanks to residents of McCadden Place.
- ConexionesFeatured in Queen Latifah: Better Than the Rest (2003)
- Bandas sonorasA Man and a Woman
(Un Homme et une Femme)
Music by Francis Lai
French lyrics by Pierre Barouh
English lyrics by Jerry Keller
Performed by Gene Merlino and Melissa MacKay
In this case, Steve Martin plays the uptight lawyer who is so obsessed with his career that he has already lost his wife over the issue and appears on the road to alienating his children as well. When Peter meets what he believes is a potential love interest in an internet chat room, he figures his life just might be turning around for the better. Peter is all set for a romantic evening champagne, dim lights, `A Man and a Woman' playing softly in the background when, at his door, who should appear but that Big Bad Mama, Queen Latifah, as Charlene Morton, an ex-convict who wants Peter to help her expunge from her record the crime she swears she did not commit. Peter is at first reluctant to accept this strange woman into his house and life, but Charlene is nothing if not persistent and she manages to horn her way in anyway.
The Jason Filardi screenplay pretty much plays it all by rote. We know, despite their tremendous differences in culture, background and personality, that these two comic titans will end up as great pals by the story's end. Nothing about `Bringing Down the House' surprises us, yet there is a certain amount of comfort to be derived from familiarity and predictability. It's an old formula but one that works fairly well here, thanks, primarily, to the assured, high-energy performances of Martin and Latifah in the starring roles. These two comic masters achieve a real chemistry working together, enough to compensate for the broad stereotyping that permeates the film. Filardi does achieve some moments of genuine hilarity by mixing slapstick and social satire in roughly equal measure. The satire isn't on a very high level of sophistication but it is good enough for a mass audience venture such as this one.
Director Adam Shankman is also blessed with a strong supporting cast that includes Eugene Levy as a nerdish - but `freaky' - business associate obsessed with wild black women like Charlene; Joan Plowright as a snooty, eccentric matron whose account Peter is determined to win for his firm; and Bette White as Peter's bigoted next door neighbor who is eyeing askance all the strange goings-on at the lawyer's house.
`Bringing Down the House' is at its best when it simply lets itself go, forgets about the plot, and allows its performers to dazzle us with their sheer likeability, i.e., Martin and Latifah dancing up a storm at an L.A. bistro, Martin breaking out into a spontaneous break dance routine while infiltrating an all-black nightclub. It is at its worst in the final scenes when the heavy-handed plot mechanics threaten to torpedo the whole project. Luckily, we have Martin and Latifah to help keep the thing afloat. The vehicle itself may creak at times, but the stars never do.
- Buddy-51
- 10 may 2003
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Bringing Down the House
- Locaciones de filmación
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- USD 33,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 132,716,677
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 31,101,026
- 9 mar 2003
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 164,729,679
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 45 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1