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Cheaper by the Dozen

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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. From TMDB

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  • Eruanion Nolaquen @eruanion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    What, Spinal Tap goes to 11. Also, most people think next is 12 angry men, but, no, it is The Dirty Dozen (Some think it is Cheaper by the Dozen, but that is a different movie series, starting with one flew over the cuckoos nest)

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Happy 49th birthday to this great actor, Tom Welling! I enjoyed watching Smallville since I was little and I enjoyed watching Cheaper by the Dozen movies as well. He was the best actor on the Choice film. Happy Birthday Clark Kent! #Filmsky #Moviesky #TVSky #April 🎥 📺

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  • Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    Now watching: ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’, dir. Walter Lang, 1950. Clifton Webb plays a man with 11 children: “Somebody in this family has to show a little spunk!” 🎥🎬

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  • Zendelle @zendelle.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    #Last4Watched #filmsky 1. Taut British thriller about a gang of thieves holed up in a remote farmhouse 2. 1951 Oscar winner for Best Story 3. Sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen, less faithful to the book 4. I just read the book, so wanted to see how close the movie stuck to the facts (pretty close)

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  • Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Liz and I, college students, were on a trip, we'd read Gilbreth's CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN to each other on the way down, and I thought we'd rent the film adaptation. Since we could use our Blockbuster card at any branch, we stopped at one in Maitland, FL, I think; unsurprisingly, they didn't have it.

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  • Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Got me thinking about Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (Moller), whose husband Frank seemed to gather all the accolades, especially as portrayed in the film like Cheaper By the Dozen. She was an amazing psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator - especially after the death of her husband.

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  • NaBOO! Haunted House @durgediggler.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    Nerds who go to the mat for Shawn Levy by listing stuff like Night at the Museum and Cheaper by the Dozen as a straight-faced mic drop are the true definition of people who like a movie only because they grew up with it. Imagine having such a dire range of movies to choose from as a child

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2025

    #AprilFilmChallenge Day 15 Favorite family film Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)

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  • Wong Turn 2: Dead End @wonggifs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    I really like Ryan Gosling. I really like Ghost Rider. No one on the planet really likes Shawn Levy. Even his mother thought Cheaper by the Dozen was mid, just like every other film in his filmography

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    #AprilMovieChallenge Day 28 Twins in a movie Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)

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  • Bardic RJ 🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bardicrj.comBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    STEVE FUCKING MARTIN! A young Steve Martin is in this film. I genuinely think this man is one of the greatest comedic actors. I think I first saw him in Cheaper By The Dozen as a kid and just loved him in everything I saw after. I've been loving Only Murders in the Building with him in as well.

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    #mayfilmchallenge May 15: Favorite Family Film Cheaper by the Dozen I love this family movie involving around a family of 12.

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  • Thee Stallion 🐎 @ughhh-its-joe.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    sunday morning film school #6: Cheaper by the Dozen 2 — something about these films just do it for me. I love the cast, story is very cute, and I think this is a film that genuinely impacted me as a kid to better understand that my parents weren’t perfect but they were doing their best.

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  • 🎃 💖 SLASHY 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @ashygroovy.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Also I just wanna say that despite some bad readings, Hayden Christensen definitely did NOT deserve the Razzie he got for this movie. Woulda given it to Eugene Levy for Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

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  • Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    the (nearly unrelated) movie totally erased all cultural memory of Cheaper by the Dozen

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  • IsisDaWonder @isisdawonder.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    Have you seen the original Cheaper by the Dozen movie? You must. It makes you appreciate both versions even more.

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  • ryanspharmacy.bsky.social @ryanspharmacy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    The combo of Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, and Hilary Duff really pins the Cheaper by the Dozen movie at a specific moment in time

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  • 🔞Monster🌻 @lunarepsilon.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    I vaguely recall watching a “Cheaper by the Dozen” movie in theaters where one of the eldest daughters has a baby. That definitely generated a lot of neurons for my smaller brain cell counts.

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  • Author D. R. Oestreicher @oestreicher.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    And the winner for the worst movie adaptation is Cheaper by the Dozen (2003). Aside from the number of children, nothing of this 1948 (set in the 1920s) classic was included in the film. The book features a husband-and-wife engineering team. Highly recommended. An efficient use of your time.

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  • Joe Lavelle @joelavellesongs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2023

    Cheaper By the Dozen is a movie about the importance of free safe legal and accessible abortion

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  • The Funk of 40,000 Years @hornbread.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    I think you have to at least include his franchises, which means Cheaper By The Dozen and Fathers of the Bride. Kinda weird how much of his movie career has been turning remakes of old comedies into franchises

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  • The Movie Music Spotlight @mmsradioshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    10:39 PM - Mason Williams - Classical Gas Featured in the 2003 movie "Cheaper by the Dozen"

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  • Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    We've kept track on @BoxOfficeGross of the troubling starve-yourself style that young actresses and models were getting themselves into in 2005 but seeing what Hilary Duff looked like in CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (2003) and what she looks like in the second film is STRIKING.

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  • Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    Alyson Stoner Went to a ‘Medical Weight Loss Camp’ for ‘Hunger Games’ Audition Prep, Says a Doctor Didn’t Report Heart Issue Before ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Filming variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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  • Jammie Dodger @smxshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    Daytime #PSPUMD of choice is Cheaper By The Dozen! I over watched this film with my brother to the point I hated it. It’s been like 20 years since I last watched it.

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  • Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    Having my PLP watch Cheaper by the Dozen with me, he's never seen it before, and the first thing he has to say about it is: This movie is stressful as fuck. LMFAOOOO. Says he'd rather be teaching hahaha

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  • Yolanda Pupo-Thompson @yolandapupo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    I love him in anything at all-wish he’d done more dancing on film than just the moments in Cheaper by the Dozen and Sitting Pretty

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  • SPOOPY SaintBuickMakane 🇧🇲 @buickmakane71.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    The movie was Cheaper By the Dozen a remake cos it had just been released. I tell ya I had so much fun.

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  • Ant Murdering She-Devil/Shelley @shelleyelwood.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    (my Morse code knowledge is spotty, but I do remember from Cheaper By the Dozen - the book, not the movie -- that C is dash dot dash dot, CAREless CHILDren)

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  • The Movie Music Spotlight @mmsradioshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    "Cheaper By The Dozen" movie poster, 2003. Opening on Christmas Day, 2003 to mixed to bad reviews, it would earn $190 million worldwide, making this movie Steve Martin's highest grossing movie to date.

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  • Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    There are still things I haven’t seen, I’d watch some of his movies over and over but I never sought them all out. But they’re all good. And by all accounts he’s a good man. I worked the Cheaper by the Dozen junket and I think I walked near him or aimed him somewhere, it wasn’t my team’s movie so i

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  • Movie Reviews by Siskoid @reviews-by-siskoid.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    My ★★★ review of Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) boxd.it/15qmG9 #Letterboxd #FilmSky

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  • Alexander Robinson @alexanderrobinson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    For the month of January, my viewers have voted for me to review 2003’s “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”. I did see this movie when it came out in theaters. I was 12 years old, but how does it hold up when I’m 34 years old? #CheaperByTheDozen #SteveMartin #HilaryDuff #YouTubMovieReview

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  • 🇺🇲💙💛 Ben's 🤗 Laughter 🧠🔭🔬🪐⚛️ @psycho-ben.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    How can you deny your poor mother her dreams of an IRL "Brady Bunch"?!? 🤪 (your mother does seem to have more hope for you than your brother 🤣) Just be grateful her dream for your future is not closer to the movie: "Your's Mine and Ours (starring red head Lucille Ball)/Cheaper By The Dozen" 😜

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  • Dom Valentini - Voice Over @voiceoverdom.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2025

    Watching “Cheaper By The Dozen” because I saw it and wondered if it held up from when I watched it as a kid. I forgot that Tom Welling (who was also Superman at the time) spends the better part of this movie being bullied and like… he’s an attractive football player. In what fucking world?

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  • Posting Through the Aether @crannyboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    Cheaper by the Dozen is a Thanksgiving movie 👏

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  • Rude Gopher Machine @rudegophermachine.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Once a month, for about a year, I took the dartmouth coach and they played Cheaper By the Dozen 2 every time, except this one day I got to watch an insane straight to video movie about Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan) trying to kill a mermaid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...

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  • Em @emkob.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    My grandma is a big movie fan, and my sisters and I grew up watching with her. We must have seen her in things like "Cheaper By The Dozen" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" about 50 times. I always thought she had such a good sense of humor and was so pretty.

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  • Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2024

    The new Avengers director did the (first) Cheaper By The Dozen remake. That's basically an Avengers movie.

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  • Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2023

    We have the kids watching the classic Steve Martin movie “Cheaper by the Dozen” on the deck with the projector setup and I’m now on Modelo #3. Happy Friday!

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  • Steve K 🎃 @skleinedler.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    wait till you hear about (if you haven't already) the Lucille Ball/Henry Fonda 1968 movie "Yours Mine & Ours" wow, this really was a subgenre in the 60s: With Six You Get Eggroll, Cheaper By The Dozen.... I wonder what in the zeitgeist was motivating THAT

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  • Jaquazia Wilson @jwilson051998.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Happy 65th Birthday To Bonnie Hunt Bonnie Lynn Hunt (Born September 22, 1961) Is An American Actress, Comedian, Director, Producer, Writer And Television Host. Her Film Roles Include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper By The Dozen, And Cheaper By

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  • Jaquazia Wilson @jwilson051998.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Happy 33rd Birthday To Alyson Stoner Alyson Rae Stoner (Born August 11, 1993) Is An American Actor, Singer, And Dancer. Their Film Roles Include Cheaper By The Dozen (2003), Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005), And The Step Up Franchise (2006–2014).

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  • Jeff Kelley @jeff-a-kelley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Born on this day in 1925 was singer and actress, Barbara Bates, best known for Phoebe in the 1950 drama film 'All About Eve' and as Katy Morgan on 'It's a Great Life' (1954–1956). Other films were The Inspector General (1949), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), and The Caddy(1953). #OnThisDay #botd

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  • Valeficent 🐍 The KDrama 🔌The Soulful Siren @thatgrlwitapen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    Brother Bear The Powerpuff Girls Movie South Central Forest Gump Cheaper By The Dozen Movies The Rugrats Movies The Wildthornberry's Movie Hey Arnold College Road Trip Freaky Friday 2 Hotel Transylvania Fatherhood Moonlight Spiderman Into the Spiderverse Sinners Are We There Yet Annie Spy Kids

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  • Raider @roomraider.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    Time for lunch...leftovers (The Last)...and watching a movie, Belles on Their Toes...an oldie movie...a sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen.....time to eat...lol😁😜

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  • Darlene Cypser @darlenecypser.comBluesky · May 21, 2026

    I saw the original Cheaper by the Dozen movie a long time ago.

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  • Graeme Edgeler @graemeedgeler.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    Cheaper by the Dozen 2 > Cheaper by the Dozen. Home Alone 3 is the best Home Alone. The Red Dawn remake was actually pretty good. The Day After Tomorrow is a great film. Maybe the best disaster film.

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  • Movie Postmortem Podcast @moviepostmortem.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    You got me curious so I looked up Cheaper by the Dozen and it’s pretty much the same novel/film/actor/remake timeline! 🤔😅

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  • Mar @marr99.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    We had Cheaper By The Dozen 2 recorded on our DVR growing up and it was my go-to movie to watch when home sick from school!!

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  • Jubilado0505 @jubilado251.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    Look for the old movie on this family called “Cheaper by the Dozen.”

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  • R @liburghal.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    From the "Kitchen Triangle", to the pedal bin, and the idea that workers should have as little movement between tasks as possible, she pioneered the modern world. Lillian was one of the first women to get a PhD in engineering but is immortalised through the film "Cheaper by the Dozen".

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  • Jonah @jonahwhitney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Is this the plot of the next “Cheaper by the Dozen” movie?

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  • Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    Nope lol, we already recorded that episode,this is research for the OTHER 2005 holiday comedy film about parents dealing with lots of children, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2

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  • Jaquazia Wilson @jwilson051998.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    Happy 49th Birthday To Piper Perabo Piper Lisa Perabo (/ˈpɛrəboʊ/ ⓘ PERR-ə-boh; Born October 31, 1976) Is An American Actress. Following Her Breakthrough In The Comedy-Drama Film Coyote Ugly (2000), She Starred In Cheaper By The Dozen (2003), Its Sequel Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige

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  • Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2025

    Yeah why would we want a Steven Soderbergh movie when we have the director of Cheaper by the Dozen

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  • Paul Potiki @guanolad.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    I kept thinking Diane Keaton was in a Steve Martin film, and I thought was it Cheaper By The Dozen? (no) Was it Parenthood? (no) Huh... (It was Father Of The Bride) To be fair, in my head those three merge into being the same movie.

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  • Jaquazia Wilson @jwilson051998.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    Happy 64th Birthday To Bonnie Hunt Bonnie Lynn Hunt (Born September 22, 1961) Is An American Actress, Comedian, Director, Producer, Writer And Television Host. Her Film Roles Include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper By The Dozen, And Cheaper

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  • Fergus McKee @fergusmckee.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    Not a movie that needs to be watched 17 times or so in a year, but my daughter insisted. If it wasn't for Cheaper by the Dozen 2, that number would have been a lot higher.

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  • Trevor @trevoralwan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    Cheaper by the Dozen 2003 ‧ Family/Comedy 2/5 fams 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ “One fam for each of the bad parents in this movie”

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