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Bringing Down The House (Full Screen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936208009
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: D29125D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 07, 2003
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Editorial Review:
The pleasingly contrasting comic styles of Queen Latifah and Steve Martin bring some energy to Bringing Down the House, a hopelessly formulaic comedy. Martin plays Peter, an uptight lawyer too obsessed with work to spend quality time with his kids. Into his life comes Queen Latifah as Charlene, an escaped convict who threatens to wreck his relationship with a wealthy but arch-conservative client (Joan Plowright, in high dudgeon) if Peter won't take up her case. Of course, Latifah's exuberant ways enchant his kids and bring out a looser, livelier side of Peter, all in a series of scenes so standard they hardly register. Thank goodness for Eugene Levy; as one of Peter's law partners with a taste for Charlene's bodacious brand of sexy, Levy's ingenious transformation from nebbish to loverman is the movie's secret weapon, stealthily planting comic explosions amidst the modest rice-krispie-crackle of the stale plot. --Bret Fetzer
The hilarious Steve Martin (FATHER OF THE BRIDE) and Academy Award(R)-nominee Queen Latifah (Best Supporting Actress, 2002, CHICAGO) star with Eugene Levy (AMERICAN PIE) in the laugh-out-loud hit comedy BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE. Peter Sanderson (Martin), a divorced, straitlaced, uptight workaholic attorney, meets a brainy bombshell lawyer in an on-line chat room and they make a date. Expecting his soul mate, he opens the door and finds himself face-to-face with Charlene (Latifah) -- a wild and crazy soul "sister" who's just escaped from prison and wants Peter to clear her name. But Peter wants absolutely nothing to do with her, and that prompts Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life totally upside down. Hysterical complications abound and Peter soon finds out he may need Charlene just as much as she needs him. It's a houseful of fun your family will enjoy again and again.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - hillarious
Steve Martin & Queen Latifah, A Perfect Match. you wouldn't think that these 2 would make a team but they do. this movie is really good and really funny. it's a must see.
Rating:  - Blaxplotation at its finest.
The use of corny stereotypes and slang made as an african american man want to vommit.
Rating:  - Predictable
You see a lot of it coming, but the actors carry it off pretty well.
Rating: - Very funny movie
Bringing Down the House was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time when it was released back in 2003. Steve Martin and Dana Owens aka the Queen have great chemistry in the movie. Eugene Levy steals every scene he's in although I wish he would have had a bigger part. Some people have been complain that the film is racist but as a Black Amercian I didn't find it racist it all. The film pokes fun at old school views on racism. If you want a good fun film check this one out
Rating: - MARTIN FUNNY AGAIN; LATIFAH FULFILLS PROMISE OF COMEDY QUEEN
Steve Martin has made tons of movies, some of them good and some of them down right unbearable. But he's always been a favorite of mine. After a few movies that seem to have gone nowhere (does anyone remember NOVOCAINE?) he returns to form in the movie BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE.
Martin stars as uptight and pure white tax attorney Peter Sanderson. Divorced, yet still in love with his wife, a father, yet having no time for his children, Sanderson finds a few moments to make a friend online. ... Read More
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