| Bringing Down the House | |
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| Directed by | Adam Shankman |
| Written by | Jason Filardi |
| Produced by | David Hoberman Ashok Amritraj |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Edited by | Gerald B. Greenberg |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $33 million[citation needed] |
| Box office | $164.7 million[1] |
Bringing Down the House is a 2003 American comedy film written by Jason Filardi and directed by Adam Shankman and starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah alongside Eugene Levy, Jean Smart, and Joan Plowright. The film features Martin as Peter Sanderson, a lonely lawyer who meets a woman on the Internet, only to learn she has escaped prison to prove her innocence. She then proceeds to wreak havoc on his own upper-class life. The film was released on March 7, 2003 by Touchstone Pictures and was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures.