Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events [videorecording (DVD)] / Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures ; a Parkes/MacDonald production ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; a Brad Silberling film ; produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Jim Van Wyck ; screenplay by Robert Gordon ; directed by Brad Silberling.
Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Coolidge. Voice, Jude Law. Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Based on the books "The bad beginning", "The reptile room" and "The wide window" by Lemony Snicket. Special features: Commentary by Brad Silberling; Brad Silberling and the real Lemony Snicket commentary; bad beginnings; dismal deletions; obnoxious outtakes; "A terrible tragedy": alarming evidence from the making of the film; volume, frequency, decibels; sinister special effects.
Summary:
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
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