Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Director:
Brad Silberling
Writers (WGA):
Robert Gordon (screenplay)
Daniel Handler (books)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 December 2004 (USA)
Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Tagline:
On December 17, Christmas cheer takes a holiday.
Plot:
Three wealthy children’s parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune
This is the story of the Bauedelaires, three young orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, looking for a new home, who are taken in by a series of odd relatives and other people, including Lemony Snicket, who narrates the film, and starting with the cunning and dastardly Count Olaf, who hopes to snatch their inheritance from them. Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaires at 14, and is their brave and fast-thinking leader. The only boy is middle child Klaus, 12, who is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words. The youngest is infant Sunny, who speaks in a language only her siblings can understand, and she has a tendency to, bite
The story begins with the narration of Lemony Snicket (Jude Law) telling the story of how the three Baudelaire children became orphans after a fire destroys their home with their parents trapped inside. The orphans, Violet (Emily Browning) 14, Klaus (Liam Aiken) 12, and the baby, Sunny (Kara & Shelby Hoffman) are sent to live with a distant relative, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), a demented actor who only wanting the children to steal their large inheritance. Count Olaf is not a nice person. He makes the children clean the house, cook his dinner, and do anything he wants them to do. To get all their money, Count Olaf plots to kill the children, but instead, the children are taken away from him and are given to a series of odd guardians. Count Olaf worms his way into the lives of these guardians and soon they end up dead

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