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Bringing Down the House
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Bringing Down the House is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Adam Shankman. The movie stars Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, and Joan Plowright. David Hoberman and Ashok Amritraj produced the film, which was created by Touchstone Pictures, Hyde Park Entertainment, and Mandeville Films. Filming took place in Pittsburgh. The production team included composer Lalo Schifrin, director of photography Julio Macat, and film editor Gerald B. Greenberg.
The film has a runtime of 105 minutes and was released on March 7, 2003. It was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Netflix, and Disney+ in video on demand format. The budget was 20,000,000, and the revenue reached 132,700,000. The tagline is "Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison." Keywords associated with the work include prison, workaholic, parent child relationship, love at first sight, and ex-boyfriend.
Critical reception includes a review score of 34%, 4.8/10, and 39/100. Audience ratings list a vote average of 5.975 on TMDb and a rating of 5.6 on IMDb. The original language of the film is English.
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6.0Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.
Cast
- Steve Martin as Peter Sanderson
- Queen Latifah as Charlene Morton
- Eugene Levy as Howie Rottman
- Joan Plowright as Mrs. Virginia Arness
- Jean Smart as Kate Sanderson
- Kimberly J. Brown as Sarah Sanderson
Themes
- prison
- workaholic
- parent child relationship
- love at first sight
- ex-boyfriend
- support
- mistaken identity
- prison escape
- lawyer
- female prisoner
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Adam Shankman
- Cast member
- Jim Haynie
- Composer
- Lalo Schifrin
- Producer
- Ashok Amritraj
- Production company
- Touchstone Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Julio Macat
- Filming location
- Pittsburgh
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 969635
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Bringing down the house intertitle.png
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- publication date
- 2003-07-17
- title
- Bringing Down the House
- film editor
- Gerald B. Greenberg
- production designer
- Linda DeScenna
- distributed by
- Disney+
- review score
- 39/100
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