BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE

Year: 2003
USA: Buena Vista Distribution
UK: Buena Vista International UK
Cast: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Kimberly J Brown, Angus T Jones, Missi Pyle, Michael Rosenbaum, Betty White, Erik Betts, Joseph J Dawson, Michael Ensign, Aengus James, Matt Lutz, Josh Waters, Victor Webster, Michelle Marie White
Director: Adam Shankman
Country: USA
USA & UK: 105 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for language, sexual humor and drug material
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references, language, violence and soft drug use
USA Release Date: 7 March 2003
UK Release Date: 30 May 2003



Synopsis

Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife, Kate (Jean Smart), 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 barrister he's been chatting with 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 (Queen Latifah), a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help 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 woo a billion dollar client, Mrs. Arness (Joan Plowright). In the end, our unlikely pair has the chance to put each other's lives on higher ground...if they don't end up bringing down the house.