Bringing Down the House  

Fri Mar 07 2003

Overview,

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

The Movie Database: 5.98/10

Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 33%

Metacritic: 39/100

Cast and Crew

Directed By, Adam Shankman |

Screenplay By, Jason Filardi |

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Details

Rating

Not Adult

Genres

Comedy
Drama

Tagline

Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison.

Langauge

en

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures
Hyde Park Entertainment
Mandeville Films

Runtime

105 minutes

Budget

20.000 Million $

Box-Office

132.700 Million $

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