The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
Cheaper by the Dozen has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 Dec 2003
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Cheaper by the Dozen was released in 2003 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 530 reviews, giving Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 62%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 49%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Cheaper by the Dozen than critics were.
With a score of 58%, Cheaper by the Dozen is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2003, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 2003 with similar scores include films like The Matrix Revolutions, Paycheck and What a Girl Wants.
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