Bringing Down the House (2003)

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A lawyer, who is too wrapped up in his work for his family and thus is estranged from his wife, takes up with a woman on a computer chat line that he thinks is a blonde attorney. Instead she turns out to be an escaped con, Charlene, who claims to be innocent. Through a chain of threats, she coerces the lawyer into helping prove her innocence. In doing so, she also helps him rediscover his own life. Peter's lawyer friend becomes infatuated with Charlene. There's also an uptight heiress with a bulldog named William Shakespeare, who is being pursued as a client by Peter's law office.

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