Massive Numbered Siblings / Live-Action Films

• A Wedding: Muffin's uncle and his wife have nine kids.
• Back to the Future: Marty's mother Lorraine is the eldest of five siblings, and her mother appears to be pregnant with a sixth in 1955.
• The family in the adaptations of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy (known, rather aptly, as the Rabbittes in the books but given various names in the films) — The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van — are an Irish family of six siblings.
• Becoming Jane: Jane Austen comes from a large family: she has one sister and six brothers. Truth in Television, as the real Jane Austen was indeed the second-youngest of eight children.
• Caddyshack's Danny Noonan is the oldest of nine children.
• A brief scene in Canyon Passage has Logan and Lucy meeting a homesteader family who are moving. The patriarch of the family says they are leaving Fall River because it is getting too crowded there. Then, as the wagon moves past, Logan and Lucy (and the audience) sees a vast number of children strung out behind the wagon.
• The Charlie Chan films mention seven brothers ^note Henry, Oswald, Lee, Jimmy, Tommy, Eddie, Charlie Jr, and Willie and three sisters ^note Ling, Iris and Frances. This is an in-depth explanation of who's who, and points out a few inconsistencies.
• Cheaper By The Dozen in all its incarnations — it's in the premise. The writers of the original book actually came from a twelve-child family, making it Very Loosely Based on a True Story.
• Dear Lola was about a family of runaways with something like ten kids being raised by one eighteen-year-old.
• Delivery Man: A sperm bank uses the same donor to father 533 children.
• Mrs. Parry from Doctor in Distress (1963) has so many children that she can't remember if she has nine or ten.
• In The Fighter, Micky has seven sisters and a brother.
• The Corleone family in The Godfather have four biological children, and also raised Tom Hagen alongside them, bringing the total to five. While Kay considered this a big family, youngest son Michael says that by Italian standards, five children is a small family.
• Will lies about having a ton of brothers in Good Will Hunting (he's actually an orphan that grew up in abusive foster homes). He's pretty obviously telling Blatant Lies (in a flirtatious way) but its also a chance for him to show off his brain power, by quickly rattling off all their names then immediately doing it again when prompted (so quickly his date can't tell if he gave the same list of names).
• In The Grand Seduction, one of the patients John gets soon after moving to Tickle Head is a woman with multiple children. After listing their various needs, she states that she thinks she needs birth control.
• We're not sure exactly how many children King Mongkut had in The King and I by his various wives. We're introduced to several of them (including crown-prince Chulalongkorn) during the musical number "March of the Siamese Children". After the number, the King mentions to Anna that someday he will let her meet his other children, produced by wives not currently in his favor. In his own words, "Sixty-seven, I think." By counting the children that approach during the number, and assuming his count of extra children is correct, King Mongkut had approximately 106 children with 5 more expected the next month.
• As noted in the Literature folder, hobbits are prone to this in general, but The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring hangs a lampshade on it at Bilbo's birthday party. He greets one of his guests, who is surrounded by a mob of at least nine children, and asks if they're all hers; upon receiving an affirmative, he makes a startled observation about her productivity. She laughs.
• Ma And Pa Kettle have fifteen children.
• Parodied in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, where the Catholic family has an absurd if not impossible number of kids, because they're not allowed to use birth control.
• The Muppet Christmas Carol: Played for Laughs.
  • Rizzo the Rat remarks that he can't understand Scrooge's loneliness due to having grown up with 1,274 siblings.
  • The Ghost of Christmas Present announces to Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Michael Caine) that over 1,800 of his brothers have come before him.
    Scrooge: Eighteen hundred? Imagine the grocery bills.
• Nanny McPhee is about widowed Cedric Brown who has seven children: 11-year-old Simon, 10-year-old Tora, 9-year-old Lily, 8-year-old Eric, 7-year-old Sebastian, 5-year-old Christianna, and 1-year-old baby Agatha.
  • This is lampshaded both by their Great-Aunt Adele (who complains about how many children there are, and apparently doesn't notice when extra "children" are slipped into the group in the form of the farm animals) and Mrs. Selma Quickly (who believes their father is only interested in one thing from her, so "no wonder there's so many of you!")
• A Peck on the Cheek: In the prologue, Shyama tells Dileepan that she wants to have 8 kids. Dileepan responds that he doesn't want any kids — not until the war is over and Sri Lanka is a safer place for children. Considering the war wouldn't actually end until nearly 20 years after that scene, Dileepan would've made his wife wait a very long time if he hadn't gotten killed. In the story's present day, Shyama more or less gets her wish by taking care of hundreds of war orphans.
• Polish Wedding includes a family of five siblings (four boys and a girl, respectively), plus a sister-in-law with a new baby boy.
• The movie The Prizewinner Of Defiance Ohio includes a brood of 10 kids.
• The Disney Channel Original Movie Quints is about a girl who has to adjust to no longer being an only child when her mother gives birth to quintuplets.
• Played for Laughs in Remember the Titans. Coach Boone gives a Rousing Speech to Ronnie Bass about how he (Boone) was the youngest of 12 brothers and sisters but they all looked up to him. Once Ronnie leaves, the truth comes out.
  Coach Doc: You had 12 brothers and sisters?
  Coach Boone: [completely deadpan] 8.
  Coach Doc: Yeah, 12 sounds better.
• A brief visual gag in Ring of Fear shows a bored-looking father sitting in the circus audience surrounding by at least eight children, all of whom are identical twins.
• In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Little John and his wife Fanny have eight children, the youngest of whom is born about halfway through the movie. Only the oldest, Wulf, ever has his name mentioned, as he's the only one of them with speaking lines.
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It's even in the title. The seven were each named after someone (or something, in one case, but you'll call him "Frank" instead of "Frankincense" if you know what's good for you) from The Bible, each using a consecutive letter of the English alphabet. All are adults — at least physically — and live together.
• There are seven children in The Sound of Music's von Trapp family before Maria comes along. One would guess that after the movie ends, she probably gives birth to more, since in real life she added three.
• Yours, Mine, and Ours has this at its base. A widower with ten children meets and marries a widow with eight children, merging them into a single family with eighteen children. In the original version at least, by the time number nineteen arrives, the eldest moves out.^note  In reality, Frank Beardsley was the one who had eight children by his late wife, while Helen North was the one who had ten children by her late husband. After marrying, Frank and Helen had another two children together.

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