Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

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Continuity mistake: When the teenage boy picks up the picture of him and his girlfriend, the position of the picture in his hand changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: When the Baker kids are taking revenge on the bullies that stole Mark's glasses, they knock the guy's drink to the ground, but a couple shots later it's gone.

Audio problem: When Sarah Baker says "I would feel happier and stronger if we vote on it", he lips move way too quickly for the words to catch up.

Continuity mistake: When the kids are playing apple shmeer with Tom Baker, Jake's t-shirt is covered with apple sauce, but in the next shot when Nora and Hank pull in the driveway, the apple sauce is gone from his t-shirt.

dell

Continuity mistake: When Dylan's mom makes Dylan leave the Bakers' house, he still has his rollerblades on. In the next scene, where he and his parents are walking on the sidewalk back to their house, he's in his normal shoes.

katherinelei

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Suggested correction: He probably changed into his regular shoes after they rolled him out. Even though they didn't show him changing doesn't mean he didn't.

Visible crew/equipment: When they find Mark at the train station in Midland his mother gives him a hug, and a crew member's shadow is visible on Jake Baker's T-shirt.

dell

Visible crew/equipment: When Mark goes back to his bedroom, after the fight with his family, you can see a crew member reflected on the door before he enters the room.

dell

Factual error: Children must be 15 or older to ride Amtrak alone. Mark is not 15.

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning when the twins go to work with Tom, you see a zoomed out shot of the entire field. You see two of the players slam into the mats that Nigel and Kyle are on, but in the zoomed in shot, they do it again.

Jennifer 1

Continuity mistake: After breakfast at the beginning, when Mark leaves after Sarah says, "Nice move, Fedex", there is a white cup in front of Jessica which disappears when the camera changes angle.

Jennifer 1

Kate Baker: He is not a doorknob!
Jake Baker: The man irons his jeans, Mom.
Kate Baker: Yeah, that's weird.

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Trivia: In one of the scenes where Steve Martin is talking to the press, one of the reporters is Shawn Levy, the film's director.

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Question: Does it seem strange to anyone else that these kids, including teenagers, can't help take care of themselves for two weeks? My family has six kids and we can function for a week or two when Mom and Dad go out of town. In a large family, parents usually raise their children to help out a lot more and be more responsible.

Answer: It seems that the fact the family can't take care of themselves is added to part of the humour of the film. 12 children is a lot, and think about all those rows and all that mess.

Hamster

It's not like they couldn't take care of themselves. As shown with the breakfast scene at the beginning, they seem to function pretty well when they all get along. Tom and Kate were just usually home more frequently than some other parents. It also didn't help that it was the first time that one of the parents was gone for an extended period and the parent that was left home (Tom) had never had to deal with all the kids on his own. Also, the only time we see complete chaos in the house is the first day that Kate has been gone. After that the kids are more behaved (at home).

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