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Cheaper By The Dozen (20023)

In this adaptation of Frank and Ernestine Gilbreths’ 1948 novel, Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) are the parents of 12 kids who move from their small Illinois town to a Chicago suburb after he gets a job coaching college football at his alma mater. With Tom busy with his new job and Kate on a publicity tour for a book she wrote, the children encounter problems adjusting to their new environs and counting on their preoccupied father to be Mr. Mom. Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling also star. 98 min. C/Rtg: PG

Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005)

Side-splitting sequel has Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie) Hunt taking their 12 children on one final vacation together to Lake Winnetka before some of them start leaving home to begin their adult lives. What should be a peaceful Labor Day weekend at a lakeside retreat quickly turns into a comedic showdown between Tom’s tight-knit clan and that of his long-time rival (Eugene Levy). With Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling. 94 min. C/Rtg: PG