Cheaper By the Dozen

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Summary: Cheaper by the Dozen -Clifton Webb
Review: This is a hilarious movie about the workings (or not workings) of an American family gone amok. It's warm and witty and leaves a good feeling in your heart. It's a great gift for any parent.
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Debbie Farmer Author of DON'T PUT LIPSTICK ON THE CAT! (...)

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Summary: Wonderfully warm and funny
Review: This is a hilarious movie about the workings (or not workings) of an American family gone amok. It's warm and witty and leaves a good feeling in your heart. It's a great gift for any parent.
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Debbie Farmer Author of DON'T PUT LIPSTICK ON THE CAT! (...)

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Summary: A magical adventure of a real-life 1920's family.
Review: This is a wonderful true-life story of the large family of an efficiency expert. Not only will it entertain you and your family with the children's antics, but it will give you an excellent feel for life in 1910's and 1920's America.

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Summary: Cheaper by the Dozen -Clifton Webb
Review: This is by far better than the remake. A definite must see. For a collector it is a must have. I really enjoyed all the problems that cropped up and were solved ingeniously.

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Summary: Funny! Intelligent! Down-to-earth!
Review: This movie is an absolute delight all around, content and production quality included! Pro-lifers will especially LOVE it! There's a very funny moment concerning that issue. Also, be sure to watch the "Special Awards" extra featured on the DVD menu. Fascinating to learn that this movie was attended by more people in 1950 than any other movie, according to Ernestine Gilbreth.
The cry from most today is just as strong as it was then - "We want wholesome family movies that are intelligently made." It takes a lot of EFFORT, a lot of THINKING to produce those. But, if Hollywood makes them, we will spend our money to see them, and also add them to our personal libraries. Wholesome movies are a good investment in the health of our society. Love those Gilbreth's!

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Summary: Fun Family entertainment
Review: this movie is based on the book by the same name. A young woman narrates, telling the story of her overly-efficient father and his devoted wife. The goal of a dozen children makes the entire movie hilarious and adorable. A great choice for parents try to encourage reading among sixth to eighth grade kids!

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Summary: Enjoyable movie true to the book's spirit
Review: Unlike the supposed remake put out at the end of 2003, this original movie adaptation of the book actually has heart, is entertaining without resorting to cheap shots or gross-out humour, and is overwhelmingly true to the spirit of the book. It might take awhile for the average modern viewer to get into it, though, since there really isn't much of a plot, not the way we've come to expect in modern movies, just a narration of various adventures the family had. This is by far one of the best and most honest screen adaptations of a book I've yet seen, right up there with 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Fiddler on the Roof.' However, screen adaptations of books being what they have to be due to time and money constraints, they naturally couldn't fit everything in, and so had to cut and paste some events from the book together so they wouldn't completely overlook the important stuff (and unlike many cut and paste jobs in other book-based movies, here it was done very tastefully instead of randomly and carelessly), and they did leave out a number of the funniest stories in the book, like Bill pushing the Chinese cook into the oven and the so-called interviews which ran in the paper, much to the family's horror that a lot of the things they supposedly said and did were made up to embarrass them. They also got the birth order of the last two mixed up; Jane was the last-born child in real life, and Bob was the penultimate. Still, given what passes for entertainment nowadays and how movies based on books usually bear little or no coherent resemblance to the story which the viewers know and love, this is a very clean and fun family movie.