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Cheaper by the Dozen
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FilmPG2003
Cheaper by the Dozen
Directed by Shawn Levy
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. From TMDB
115 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 comedy family film, directed by Shawn Levy, starring Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt and Hilary Duff.
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60 of 115 · most liked firstThey made a GHOST RIDER movie before, but it was directed by the guy who wrote the GRUMPY OLD MEN movies and BIG BULLY. 20 years later it's time to finally do it right, with the director of BIG FAT LIAR, the CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN and PINK PANTHER remakes and the NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM series.
neutral · AI labelView post →What, Spinal Tap goes to 11. Also, most people think next is 12 angry men, but, no, it is The Dirty Dozen (Some think it is Cheaper by the Dozen, but that is a different movie series, starting with one flew over the cuckoos nest)
neutral · AI labelView post →In most cases, I'd guess that factories don't need cameras or AI image analysis to track output, because workers aren't simply putting their output into a single pool with the output of other workers. The factory already has an easy way to know how much output the worker is producing, and, no doubt, has a record of that. There might be fields of work where that's not the case, where it's hard to know what any one worker is actually producing. But I'm dubious that it's gonna be people doing…
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 49th birthday to this great actor, Tom Welling! I enjoyed watching Smallville since I was little and I enjoyed watching Cheaper by the Dozen movies as well. He was the best actor on the Choice film. Happy Birthday Clark Kent! #Filmsky #Moviesky #TVSky #April 🎥 📺
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’, dir. Walter Lang, 1950. Clifton Webb plays a man with 11 children: “Somebody in this family has to show a little spunk!” 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →#Last4Watched #filmsky 1. Taut British thriller about a gang of thieves holed up in a remote farmhouse 2. 1951 Oscar winner for Best Story 3. Sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen, less faithful to the book 4. I just read the book, so wanted to see how close the movie stuck to the facts (pretty close)
neutral · AI labelView post →Liz and I, college students, were on a trip, we'd read Gilbreth's CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN to each other on the way down, and I thought we'd rent the film adaptation. Since we could use our Blockbuster card at any branch, we stopped at one in Maitland, FL, I think; unsurprisingly, they didn't have it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got me thinking about Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (Moller), whose husband Frank seemed to gather all the accolades, especially as portrayed in the film like Cheaper By the Dozen. She was an amazing psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator - especially after the death of her husband.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nerds who go to the mat for Shawn Levy by listing stuff like Night at the Museum and Cheaper by the Dozen as a straight-faced mic drop are the true definition of people who like a movie only because they grew up with it. Imagine having such a dire range of movies to choose from as a child
negative · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge Day 15 Favorite family film Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like Ryan Gosling. I really like Ghost Rider. No one on the planet really likes Shawn Levy. Even his mother thought Cheaper by the Dozen was mid, just like every other film in his filmography
negative · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge Day 28 Twins in a movie Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)
neutral · AI labelView post →STEVE FUCKING MARTIN! A young Steve Martin is in this film. I genuinely think this man is one of the greatest comedic actors. I think I first saw him in Cheaper By The Dozen as a kid and just loved him in everything I saw after. I've been loving Only Murders in the Building with him in as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →#mayfilmchallenge May 15: Favorite Family Film Cheaper by the Dozen I love this family movie involving around a family of 12.
positive · AI labelView post →sunday morning film school #6: Cheaper by the Dozen 2 — something about these films just do it for me. I love the cast, story is very cute, and I think this is a film that genuinely impacted me as a kid to better understand that my parents weren’t perfect but they were doing their best.
positive · AI labelView post →Also I just wanna say that despite some bad readings, Hayden Christensen definitely did NOT deserve the Razzie he got for this movie. Woulda given it to Eugene Levy for Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →the (nearly unrelated) movie totally erased all cultural memory of Cheaper by the Dozen
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen the original Cheaper by the Dozen movie? You must. It makes you appreciate both versions even more.
neutral · AI labelView post →The combo of Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, and Hilary Duff really pins the Cheaper by the Dozen movie at a specific moment in time
neutral · AI labelView post →I vaguely recall watching a “Cheaper by the Dozen” movie in theaters where one of the eldest daughters has a baby. That definitely generated a lot of neurons for my smaller brain cell counts.
neutral · AI labelView post →And the winner for the worst movie adaptation is Cheaper by the Dozen (2003). Aside from the number of children, nothing of this 1948 (set in the 1920s) classic was included in the film. The book features a husband-and-wife engineering team. Highly recommended. An efficient use of your time.
negative · AI labelView post →Cheaper By the Dozen is a movie about the importance of free safe legal and accessible abortion
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge Day 15 Frog In A Movie Cheaper By The Dozen (2003) youtu.be/oIjgZ-i9v_k?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I think you have to at least include his franchises, which means Cheaper By The Dozen and Fathers of the Bride. Kinda weird how much of his movie career has been turning remakes of old comedies into franchises
neutral · AI labelView post →10:39 PM - Mason Williams - Classical Gas Featured in the 2003 movie "Cheaper by the Dozen"
neutral · AI labelView post →We've kept track on @BoxOfficeGross of the troubling starve-yourself style that young actresses and models were getting themselves into in 2005 but seeing what Hilary Duff looked like in CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (2003) and what she looks like in the second film is STRIKING.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alyson Stoner Went to a ‘Medical Weight Loss Camp’ for ‘Hunger Games’ Audition Prep, Says a Doctor Didn’t Report Heart Issue Before ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Filming variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Daytime #PSPUMD of choice is Cheaper By The Dozen! I over watched this film with my brother to the point I hated it. It’s been like 20 years since I last watched it.
negative · AI labelView post →Having my PLP watch Cheaper by the Dozen with me, he's never seen it before, and the first thing he has to say about it is: This movie is stressful as fuck. LMFAOOOO. Says he'd rather be teaching hahaha
neutral · AI labelView post →I love him in anything at all-wish he’d done more dancing on film than just the moments in Cheaper by the Dozen and Sitting Pretty
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie was Cheaper By the Dozen a remake cos it had just been released. I tell ya I had so much fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →(my Morse code knowledge is spotty, but I do remember from Cheaper By the Dozen - the book, not the movie -- that C is dash dot dash dot, CAREless CHILDren)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Cheaper By The Dozen" movie poster, 2003. Opening on Christmas Day, 2003 to mixed to bad reviews, it would earn $190 million worldwide, making this movie Steve Martin's highest grossing movie to date.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are still things I haven’t seen, I’d watch some of his movies over and over but I never sought them all out. But they’re all good. And by all accounts he’s a good man. I worked the Cheaper by the Dozen junket and I think I walked near him or aimed him somewhere, it wasn’t my team’s movie so i
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) boxd.it/15qmG9 #Letterboxd #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →For the month of January, my viewers have voted for me to review 2003’s “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”. I did see this movie when it came out in theaters. I was 12 years old, but how does it hold up when I’m 34 years old? #CheaperByTheDozen #SteveMartin #HilaryDuff #YouTubMovieReview
neutral · AI labelView post →How can you deny your poor mother her dreams of an IRL "Brady Bunch"?!? 🤪 (your mother does seem to have more hope for you than your brother 🤣) Just be grateful her dream for your future is not closer to the movie: "Your's Mine and Ours (starring red head Lucille Ball)/Cheaper By The Dozen" 😜
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching “Cheaper By The Dozen” because I saw it and wondered if it held up from when I watched it as a kid. I forgot that Tom Welling (who was also Superman at the time) spends the better part of this movie being bullied and like… he’s an attractive football player. In what fucking world?
neutral · AI labelView post →Cheaper by the Dozen is a Thanksgiving movie 👏
neutral · AI labelView post →Once a month, for about a year, I took the dartmouth coach and they played Cheaper By the Dozen 2 every time, except this one day I got to watch an insane straight to video movie about Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan) trying to kill a mermaid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...
neutral · AI labelView post →My grandma is a big movie fan, and my sisters and I grew up watching with her. We must have seen her in things like "Cheaper By The Dozen" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" about 50 times. I always thought she had such a good sense of humor and was so pretty.
neutral · AI labelView post →The new Avengers director did the (first) Cheaper By The Dozen remake. That's basically an Avengers movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →We have the kids watching the classic Steve Martin movie “Cheaper by the Dozen” on the deck with the projector setup and I’m now on Modelo #3. Happy Friday!
neutral · AI labelView post →wait till you hear about (if you haven't already) the Lucille Ball/Henry Fonda 1968 movie "Yours Mine & Ours" wow, this really was a subgenre in the 60s: With Six You Get Eggroll, Cheaper By The Dozen.... I wonder what in the zeitgeist was motivating THAT
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 65th Birthday To Bonnie Hunt Bonnie Lynn Hunt (Born September 22, 1961) Is An American Actress, Comedian, Director, Producer, Writer And Television Host. Her Film Roles Include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper By The Dozen, And Cheaper By
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 33rd Birthday To Alyson Stoner Alyson Rae Stoner (Born August 11, 1993) Is An American Actor, Singer, And Dancer. Their Film Roles Include Cheaper By The Dozen (2003), Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005), And The Step Up Franchise (2006–2014).
neutral · AI labelView post →Born on this day in 1925 was singer and actress, Barbara Bates, best known for Phoebe in the 1950 drama film 'All About Eve' and as Katy Morgan on 'It's a Great Life' (1954–1956). Other films were The Inspector General (1949), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), and The Caddy(1953). #OnThisDay #botd
neutral · AI labelView post →Brother Bear The Powerpuff Girls Movie South Central Forest Gump Cheaper By The Dozen Movies The Rugrats Movies The Wildthornberry's Movie Hey Arnold College Road Trip Freaky Friday 2 Hotel Transylvania Fatherhood Moonlight Spiderman Into the Spiderverse Sinners Are We There Yet Annie Spy Kids
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for lunch...leftovers (The Last)...and watching a movie, Belles on Their Toes...an oldie movie...a sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen.....time to eat...lol😁😜
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the original Cheaper by the Dozen movie a long time ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cheaper by the Dozen 2 > Cheaper by the Dozen. Home Alone 3 is the best Home Alone. The Red Dawn remake was actually pretty good. The Day After Tomorrow is a great film. Maybe the best disaster film.
positive · AI labelView post →You got me curious so I looked up Cheaper by the Dozen and it’s pretty much the same novel/film/actor/remake timeline! 🤔😅
neutral · AI labelView post →We had Cheaper By The Dozen 2 recorded on our DVR growing up and it was my go-to movie to watch when home sick from school!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Look for the old movie on this family called “Cheaper by the Dozen.”
neutral · AI labelView post →From the "Kitchen Triangle", to the pedal bin, and the idea that workers should have as little movement between tasks as possible, she pioneered the modern world. Lillian was one of the first women to get a PhD in engineering but is immortalised through the film "Cheaper by the Dozen".
neutral · AI labelView post →Is this the plot of the next “Cheaper by the Dozen” movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Nope lol, we already recorded that episode,this is research for the OTHER 2005 holiday comedy film about parents dealing with lots of children, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 49th Birthday To Piper Perabo Piper Lisa Perabo (/ˈpɛrəboʊ/ ⓘ PERR-ə-boh; Born October 31, 1976) Is An American Actress. Following Her Breakthrough In The Comedy-Drama Film Coyote Ugly (2000), She Starred In Cheaper By The Dozen (2003), Its Sequel Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah why would we want a Steven Soderbergh movie when we have the director of Cheaper by the Dozen
neutral · AI labelView post →I kept thinking Diane Keaton was in a Steve Martin film, and I thought was it Cheaper By The Dozen? (no) Was it Parenthood? (no) Huh... (It was Father Of The Bride) To be fair, in my head those three merge into being the same movie.
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