Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison.

The hilarious Steve Martin (Father Of The Bride) and Academy Award-nominated Queen Latifah (Chicago) star in the blockbuster, laugh-out-loud comedy Bringing Down the House. Peter Sanderson (Martin), a divorced, strait-laced, uptight workaholic attorney, meets a brainy, bombshell barrister in an online chat room and they make a date. Expecting his soul mate, he opens the door and finds himself face-to-face with Charlene (Latifah) - a wild and crazy soul sister who's just escaped from prison and wants Peter to clear her name. But Peter wants absolutely nothing to do with her, and that prompts Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down. Hysterical complications abound and Peter soon finds out he may need Charlene just as much as she needs him.