Directed by: Shawn Levy
Written by: Sam Harper, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Produced by: Michael Barnathan, Robert Simonds
Other cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo
Release date: December 25, 2003
Genre: Comedy, Family
Running time: 98 minutes
With his wife doing a book tour, a father of twelve must handle a new job and his unstable brood.
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Taglines
– This Christmas The More… The Scarier!
– Growing pains? They’ve got twelve of them!
Character’s Quotes
[walks into kitchen] I am totally aware that this family doesn’t value self-presentation in the same obsessive way that I do. Fine. Whatever. But one of my life goals aside from being, like, a fashion guru is to indicate to the local community that the Baker family actually owns a bar of soap. So, as self-appointed in-house rep of style and hygiene, I think that I should be allotted at least five extra minutes in front of the mirror.
Call me crazy Pops but things are getting pretty twisted around here.
Up ’til now I’ve been, like, mellow about this whole having-it-all lifestyle that you and Mom are currently into. A, because Sarah has the drama queen role totally covered, and B, because I have benefited from your salary spike in various shallow but nonetheless pleasing ways.