Starring: - Steve Martin
- Bonnie Hunt
- Piper Perabo
Description:
College sweethearts Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) both dreamed of having a huge family and fulfilling careers. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a sportswriter, Tom abandoned his hope of becoming the coach of their alma mater's football team, and they moved their brood from the city to the country. Now, after twelve children and a happy life in rural Illinois, Tom has been offered the chance to live his dream and coach the Stallions. No sooner does the family pack up and move to Chicago to pursue Tom's dream job then Kate's ship comes in as well; a publisher has picked up her manuscript based on her experiences raising twelve children. Of course, there's a hitch. Kate has to go to New York for a few days, leaving Tom as the primary care giver for his clan. Can Tom hold it together with his kids--who didn't want to move in the first place--pulling him one way and the university pulling him the other? Shawn Levy directs this likable update of the 1950 film of the same title which was based on a true story. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (1950): Clifton Webb stars in this lighthearted comedy as a patriarch who has more children than he can count on both hands. Along with his loving wife, played with dry humor by Myrna Loy, Frank Gilbreth must contend with the problems of five fathers. This includes a mass tonsillectomy and the eldest daughter's adolescent crises; her lack of a date to the school dance is solved skillfully by Dad, who takes her himself! Based on the true story of Frank and Lillian Gibreth's child rearing adventures as they were depicted in the book written by two of their children, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is directed with a refreshing post-war optimism by Walter Lang. Though the huge family must be run with a workmanlike, though comic, efficiency, it is Dad's charm and love for his offspring keeps the family together.
1. 10,000 Maniacs - These are Days
2. Lyrics Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall
3. Len - People Come Together
4. Mr. Cheeks - Back Again
5. Lyrics Taps
6. Tom Cochran - Life is a Highway
7. Slum Village - Conant Gardens
8. Simple Plan - I'm Just a Kid
9. Sahara Hotnights - Alright, Alright
10. Lea Longo - Someone Like Me
11. Fountains of Wayne - Help
12. David Usher - Surfacing
13. Yerba Buena - Guajira (I Love U 2 Much)
14. Sum 41 - In Too Deep
15. Orchestre symphonique de Montreal - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana
16. Mason Williams - Classical Gas (Instrumental)
17. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
18. Jackson 5 - Rockin' Robin
19. Hilary Duff - What Christmas Should Be
Cheaper By The Dozen
