Bonnie Hunt Living Large
The new movie "Cheaper by the Dozen" is inspired by the hit 1950 movie and best-selling 1940s book by the same name, which was the true story of a turn-of-the-century family: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their twelve children.
In that story, the humor came as the parents - a motion efficiency expert and an enginer - tried to apply those theories to running a household.
In the new film, the family is entirely fictional, and except for the sheer scale of things, the humor comes from other matters.
Bonnie Hunt - co-starring with Steve Martin - plays an incredibly busy and incredibly organized mother of 12.
On The Early Show, Hunt gave an insight into the fictional large family, which finds itself at a crossroad as the parents are faced with career defining decisions.
Kate Baker (Hunt) learns that her memoirs are about to be published. Her agent whisks her away to New York to promote the book, leaving her husband Tom (Steve Martin) home alone with the kids and his demanding new job as coach of a major college football team. It is a formula for disaster.
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