Lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. But things go awry when he meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison. She breaks out to be with him, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
8 January 1979, Marietta, Georgia, USA
10 March 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 January 1976, Bellflower, California, USA
8 October 1993, Austin, Texas, USA
4 April 1973, Queens, New York, USA
15 April 1946, USA
17 December 1946, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
28 October 1929, Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, UK
15 October 1978, Anderson, Indiana, USA
13 June 1962, Queens, New York, USA
1967, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1970
1 May 1966, Detroit, Michigan, USA
3 July 1955, Venezuela
14 August 1945, Waco, Texas, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
July 26, 2012
It's a wheezing, rusted machine of cheap jokes, cartoon performances, and crummy plotting, using shock value and insensitivity to make its painfully unfunny points.
March 14, 2003
A comedy constructed from tapped-out ideas.
March 11, 2003
A Film in Which Steve Martin Will Appear in Full Hip-Hop Drag With Appropriate Slang for Not Less Than Six Minutes.
April 22, 2003
A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.
March 09, 2003
The material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor.
April 29, 2009
You're better off ignoring this junk and saving your time.
January 06, 2004
If you've seen the commercials for Bringing Down the House, you already know the movie's best moments and most memorable lines...
December 22, 2010
Martin and Latifah rule in boundary-pushing PG-13.
May 12, 2012
Everything about this film is painfully familiar, except, perhaps, for the vicious-but-comic catfight between Latifah and Missi Pyle, who plays a high-society gold digger.
October 07, 2003
Irreverent but perhaps not funny enough, "Bringing Down the House" gives Queen Latifah the chance to shine opposite Steve Martin.
March 18, 2003
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.
March 07, 2003
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.
