Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American family comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and stars Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. The film was released on December 25, 2003, by 20th Century Fox and grossed $190 million worldwide against its $40 million budget. Tom Baker is a football coach at Lincoln College, a small rural college near Midland City, Illinois. He met his future wife, Kate at Illinois Poly Tech, and together, they gave birth to 12 children (Nora, Charlie, Lorraine, Henry, Sarah, Jake, Mark, fraternal twins Jessica and Kim, Mike, and identical
Steve Martin (2000), and starred in "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". In 2006, he starred in the box office hit "The Pink Panther", as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He reprised the role in 2009's "The Pink Panther 2". When combined, the two films grossed over $230 million at the box office. In "Baby Mama" (2008), Martin played the founder of a health food company, and in "It's Complicated" (2009), he played opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in "The Guardian" listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination. In 2011, he appeared