Bringing Down the House (2003)
Director:
Adam Shankman
Tagline:
« Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison. »
Actors:
Peter Sanderson
Charlene Morton
Howie Rottman
Mrs. Arness
Kate
Genre:
Comedy
Rating:
(41’337 votes)
(41’337 votes)
Quotes:
« Peter Sanderson: I message for you. Howie says, 'The cool points out the window and you got him all twisted up in the game.'
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« Charlene Morton: That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
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« Howie Rottman: I'd like to dip you in Cheez Wiz and spread you all over a Ritz cracker, if I'm not being too subtle.
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« Charlene Morton: Boy, you some kinda freaky!
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« Howie Rottman: Oh, you have no idea. You got me straight trippin', boo!
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« Georgey Sanderson: [reading an article from an adult magazine] Dad, what's a rack?
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« Peter Sanderson: It's a country.
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Trailer:
Bringing Down the House
Runtime:105 minutes
Plots:
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.
Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can’t figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter’s trying to move on, and he’s smitten with a brainy, bombshell lawyer with whom he’s been chatting on-line. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn’t refined, isn’t Ivy League, and isn’t even a lawyer. Instead, it’s Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), a prison escapee who’s proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter’s perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife, and win a billion-dollar client.
Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is an ordinary lawyer who has an on-line buddy named “Lawyer-Girl”. But when Peter finally meets Lawyer-Girl, she turns out to be Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), a convict who was arrested for armed robbery, and she needs his help because she claims she didn’t do it. In the meantime, Peter is meeting his new rich client, Virginia Arness (Dame Joan Plowright), on whom he tries hard not to make a bad impression, deal with his neighbor/boss’ sister, go through a divorce, and handle two kids, along with the fact that Peter’s best friend Howie Rottman (Eugene Levy) has fallen in love with Charlene.
