Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Eugene Levy co-stars as the patriarch of a rival family of eight children. Carmen Electra portrays his wife. Two years after Tom Baker resigned from his head coaching position, his family begins to undergo many changes, beginning with Lorraine and her desire to study in New York. Their oldest daughter, Nora, is now married to Bud McNulty and heavily pregnant with their first child. They intend to move to Houston because of his new job promotion. Feeling the family is breaking apart as the children grow up and move away, Tom persuades them to take one last family vacation all
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film) Dozen" was remade 53 years later starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. The birth order in which "Cheaper by the Dozen" portrays some of the children is not the same order in which the real Gilbreth children were born. For example, Robert (who was born in 1920) is shown as being born in 1922, as the last child after Jane (who was born in 1922). This is reversed in the movie's sequel. In real life, Mary, who was the second child, died in 1912, aged 5. However, in the film "Cheaper by the Dozen", Mary is placed as the third