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Bringing Down the House

Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison.
Mar 7, 2003 · 1h 45m
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Comedy
Drama

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Uptight 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.

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CAST

Steve Martin
Peter Sanderson
Queen Latifah
Charlene Morton
Eugene Levy
Howie Rottman
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Virginia Arness
Jean Smart
Kate Sanderson
Kimberly J. Brown
Sarah Sanderson
Angus T. Jones
Georgey Sanderson
Missi Pyle
Ashley
Directed by Adam Shankman

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$132,700,000
Production
Touchstone Pictures, Hyde Park Entertainment, Mandeville Films
Country
US

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