Cheaper by the Dozen
The more...the scarier!
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.
- Director
- Shawn Levy
- Worldwide
- $190M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Cheaper by the Dozen returned 4.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $40M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $190M
- Release date
- Dec 24, 2003
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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