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
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film) Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film) Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 Technicolor film based upon the autobiographical book "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe growing up in a family with twelve children, in Montclair, New Jersey. The title comes from one of Gilbreth's favorite jokes, which played out in the movie, that when he and his family were out driving and stopped at a red light, a pedestrian would ask: "Hey, Mister! How come you got so many kids?" Gilbreth would pretend to ponder the