“Cheaper By The Dozen” has caught my attention because of the effects this movie has to families and children within the family. This is also the reason why I decided to write a review of this movie to express my opinion on some of the scene that caught my fiber sense.
“Cheaper By The Dozen” is movie that shows the life a a family composed of a father, a mother and 12 children.
The father is a professor in one of the Universities in the country, an old soccer player and he had been called by a colleague to coach one of he famous soccer team in the country. At present, father is also a couch of the soccer team of the college.
The mother is a well verse writer whose writing career stopped when their family grows more. For this, the mother decided to stay at home to attend to her siblings needs.
The parents met during their college days when the father was still a soccer player and mother was one of the members of the cheering squad of the team. Both become attracted and decided to get married. As their family grew, they transferred to a placed called Midland. The place is totally far from the city. Thus, the children grew of some behavior tide to that place.
The oldest among the siblings is a girl. At around 20 years old, she was already living with her future husband, who is presently building a career in the advertising industry as a model. The setting of the relation ship of the two, thought this is already acceptable to some society like the American society, this is not totally acceptable to some other countries like some people in the Asian countries.
The second to the youngest is a boy at around 7 years old ans he is some kind of nerd. He prefer to live and play alone together with his pet frog. Because of his aloofness to his brother and sisters he often speaks with his pet frog. The youngest are twin boys who are very much attached to their father because they were both brought to the soccer ground while their father is couching the soccer team.
While the family is living peacefully at Midland, a big break arrive to father and mother. Father received a call from a colleague that he will be coaching the soccer team which father was a member during his college life. This break is actually father was dreaming, not to mention that the salary offer will be more than enough to what they will be needing financially.
Mother received also a call from her previous employment. Mother continued writing while at home and she had written a book entitled “Cheaper By The Dozen” in which this is also the title of the movie. The book had reach her previous employment and was impressed of the book.
Father and mother discussed the scenario and they come up that they will move to another place where father is closer to his soccer coaching job. The children reacted vehemently, nobody wants to leave the place. Of course, children really don’t like the idea of going to another place where all of them will stranger. Not to mention that that they don’t have friend in that place, is another idea that hampers them move to the place.
To cut it short, the family move to New York and their colorful family life story begins.
Arriving at their new home, everyone was mazed on the size of the house. Father announced that everybody could now choose their room. None among the brother and sisters to want the second to the youngest and the nerd of the family to be a partner in the room and so, the poor boy look for another room. Luckily he found out the attic an d he brought with him his favorite pet, the frog.
After a week or 2, mother received a letter from her previous employment for the promotion of her new book entitled “Cheaper By The Dozen.” Again, after the deliberation, in agreement to mother, father decided to pursue her career too. Father knew that this is also one of the mother’s dream, and so he insisted mother to do the same.
Mother is required to stay for a week. Father assured mother that he could handle all the house chores especially preparing the kid to go to school while he is also doing his coaching job.
At the first day mother was out, everyone appear to be more energstic which father find it hard to pacify and attend all the need of the kids. And so, he called the help of the oldest sister to help him in taking care of the young ones.
Father even come up to bring all the soccer team at home so as to do the job while attending to the needs of the children.
Meanwhile, mother called and said to father that she needs to stay for another week to continue more on the promotionof the book. Though mother sensed their is something fishy going on in the house that day, she ignored it because she really needs to promote her book.
Mother could no longer stand being apart form her kids and so she decided to bring home ger work. Her employee arranged that an interview will be done at home while observing the situation of being a happy family. Mother went home with a crew to arranged a set up in the house.
Mother arrived and the children show they really missed mother. Busy of her fast approaching interview in the house, she did not have the chance to listen to the grievances of her chidren. Thus, the crew, while capturing the quarreling scenario in were frustrated. They thought this is not the picture of a hapy family.
That night, the mother learned that her boy is out of his room and later discovered that he really was no longer in the house. Mother instructed everyone to search thier missing brother. The oldest sister was also calle dto help finding their brother.
The oldest sister approached father and said: “He once mentioned his favorite place which was Midland.” Since only the train is the only possible transportation to be utilized by the boy, father hurriedly went to the train station. Liuckily, he found out his son was seating in one of the vacant seats adn he aproached the boy.
The cried in frustration and shaid to his father, “you did not fulfill your promise”. Father once promised that in thier new home there will be ahapy family. Father sat beside the boy and they rpoceed to Midland. Upon aproaching their house at Midland, father and son geard some noises. As they looked back, they found out that the whole family followed also to Midland.
Father decided to leave his work after the final game. The team won on that event.
The family went home. Father hasd manage to get his teaching job at Midland University again. Fortunately, mother’s book become also one of the best selling books. One again, they become a happy family.
The END
