First made in 1950 with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt take on the roles of Tom and Kate Baker, parents to a dozen children. He's the coach of a smalltown college American football team, she's an author. But when he akes up a job coaching a big college team just as she has to promote her new best seller, the idyllic if slightly chaotic life that the family have enjoyed starts to spiral out of control. Shawn Levy's warm-hearted family comedy also stars Piper Perabo as Nora, the oldest daughter, who's forced to take charge while Forrest Landis as the youngest, Mark, gets to steal every scene he's in.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a Film programme that first aired in 2003 and has been classified a PG certificate.
