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Bringing Down the House
Directed by
Adam Shankman
PG-13
2003
1h 45m
Comedy
,
Drama
5.6
33%
49%
6.0
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When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
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Cast of Bringing Down the House
Steve Martin
Peter Sanderson
Queen Latifah
Charlene Morton / Executive Producer
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
Michael Rosenbaum
Todd Gendler
Betty White
Mrs. Kline
Steve Harris
Widow
Jim Haynie
Ed Tobias
Aengus James
Mike
Jernard Burks
Widow's Bodyguard
Bronzell Miller
Widow's Bodyguard
Matt Lutz
Aaron
Randy Oglesby
FBI Agent
Jesse Corti
Italian FBI Agent
Smalls
Doorman
Victor Webster
Glen
Bringing Down the House Ratings & Reviews
Bitch Media
Rachel Swan
The film fails as a satire because it's plenty racist on its own.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Martin and Latifah rule in boundary-pushing PG-13.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
You have somebody as smart as Steve Martin, and as smart and appealing as Queen Latifah in a movie like this. To have such an awful, offensive story is a real disappointment.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
This is an early '80s Whoopi Goldberg movie.
Village Voice
Jane Dark
A Film in Which Steve Martin Will Appear in Full Hip-Hop Drag With Appropriate Slang for Not Less Than Six Minutes.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The equivalent of a fast-food meal -- everyone seems to love it, it slides down in a hurry, imparts few nutrients, and has us skipping back the next day hungry for more. Rarely do we stop to ask why.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
The material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
It's a sorry situation when actors as talented and funny as Queen Latifah and Steve Martin waste their efforts in an offensive exercise that feels like a bad sitcom.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The rare film that manages to be simultaneously bland and offensive.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is strictly formula stuff, made worse by an utterly careless depiction of the characters, whose road to friendship is neither believable nor remotely accounted for.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Like one of those overbearing relatives who bursts into the living room, invited or not, and shatters your domestic tranquility with a barrage of soggy platitudes and moldy jokes, both of which he's sure you've never heard before.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
It's inspired comic casting with rare feel-good chemistry.
Detroit News
Tom Long
While Bringing Down the House is far from perfect, it is still guaranteed to get you laughing.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's depressingly tame stuff.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
An embarrassment for all concerned, this witless, odd-couple comedy slings separate but equal gibes at blacks and whites... and still manages to ridicule gays and Hispanics.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The kind of comedy whose best bits have already surfaced in the coming attractions trailer.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A comedy is not allowed to end with the couples incorrectly paired. It goes against the deeply traditional requirements of the audience.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The sitcom shtick wears thin after a while.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The movie appears to have been made for an audience that considers the idea of black people terribly exotic.
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