Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film)

Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American family comedy film which takes its title from the autobiographical book of the same name by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, but despite the title and the concept of a family with twelve children, the film bears no resemblance to the book nor its original film adaptation, although it is mentioned that the mothers maiden name is Gilbreth. The film was directed by Shawn Levy, narrated by Bonnie Hunt, and starring Steve Martin. The film was released on December 25, 2003 by 20th Century Fox, ultimately grossing just over 190 million worldwide.

When her book is ready for publication, Kate is told that she must do a national book tour to promote it. Tom thinks that he will handle everything around the Bakers house while Kate is away, so he decides to hire the Bakers oldest child, Nora Perabo, and her boyfriend, Hank Kutcher, to manage the children. When Nora and Hank arrive at the Bakers house to manage them, the children plans to make Hank the target of their prank by soaking his underwear in meat and assisting the Bakers pet dog, Gunner, to attack him by chewing his bottom, prompting him to refuse to assist in babysitting. As a result, Nora is angry at the children and later drives off with Hank, while Tom berates the children for their prank and cuts off their allowance within a month. Moments after Kate departs for her national book tour, Tom realizes that he cannot handle the children on his own after a chaotic night. In reply to this revelation, Tom tries to hire a housekeeper, but nobody is willing to work with a family as large as the Bakers, so Tom decides to bring the football players from work into the Bakers house for game practicing in the living room to prepare for the Saturday night football game as the children perform chores and their household games. However, the children start causing trouble at school, in which Kyle and Nigel hurt their kindergarten teacher, and the others standup against a group of bullies by fighting them. Because of these incidents, Tom grounds them all and forbids them from going to Dylans birthday party, although they already have presents for him. Without Tom noticing them, the children sneak out of the house to give Dylan his presents. While discussing the plays, Tom overhears partygoers screaming from Dylans house as one of the gifts turns out to be a snake. In all of the commotion, Dylan gets injured by Tom and is later sent to the hospital as Tina forbids the Baker kids from ever playing with Dylan again. Tom is forced to cancel the game after Shake advises hi

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