Storyline
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, 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.
Directors
Cast
Holmes Osborne, Alyson Stoner, Bonnie Hunt, Richard Jenkins, Wayne Knight, Amy Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Ashton Kutcher, Shawn Levy, Piper Perabo, Regis Philbin, Eileen Brennan, Kevin G. Schmidt, Steve Martin, Hilary Duff, Gary Pike, David Bowe, Jared Padalecki, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Steven Anthony Lawrence, Cody Linley, Morgan York, Liliana Mumy, David Kelsey, Tom Welling, Jacob Smith, Brent Kinsman, Shane Kinsman, Paula Marshall, Kelly Ripa, Merris Carden
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Reviews
75
Entertainment Weekly
Martin and Hunt are exactly the right lively but not sticky authority figures to keep the house (and the comedy pace) bouncing.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Lighthearted fun.
60
Village Voice
Solidifying his funnyman rep, Ashton Kutcher appears as oldest child Piper Perabo's model-actor boyfriend, a delightfully brainless narcissist.
60
Chicago Reader
Be forewarned: this comedy bears only the faintest resemblance to the classic book and film of the same name.
50
Thanks to Martin and Hunt, who both have a seemingly casual flair for mining laughs from even the most generic lines of dialogue, Cheaper by the Dozen works better than it might have in less capable hands, but even they're challenged by some of the picture's forced mood swings.
