Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Cheaper by the Dozen
Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
When football coach Tom Baker accepts his dream job and his writer wife Kate goes on a book tour, the couple's twelve children struggle to adjust to a chaotic new home and absentee parents. As the kids act out and family bonds fray, Tom must juggle his demanding career with the realization that his family needs him most.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 comedy and family film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 13,581 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 175 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 185 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Cheaper by the Dozen lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 175.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
