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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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PG,1hr 47min
Genres:
Family,Comedy
Released:
December 17, 2004
Director:
Brad Silberling
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Jim Carrey, Timothy Spall, Liam Aiken  ...more
Synopsis: The best-selling series of subversive children's books from author Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) come to the screen in this black comedy for the whole family (and how often do you get to see one of those?). The Baudelaire siblings -- gadget freak Violet (Emily Browning), bookworm Klaus (Liam Aiken), and baby Sunny (Kara Hoffman and Shelby Hoffman) -- were living a fairy-tale existence with their parents until they died in a fire that destroyed the family home. With few close relatives and a ... Full Synopsis
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Karl Williams
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When it's the story that makes a book special, it can often be adapted successfully into a film, as one narrative medium morphs smoothly into another. But when a book's most valuable aspect is its prose style, filmmakers should be warned that they will be hard-pressed to recreate the virtues of their source material. That's the problem with Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a cinematic ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Jim Carrey
Count Olaf
Timothy Spall
Mr. Poe
Liam Aiken
Klaus Baudelaire
Emily Browning
Violet Baudelaire, Emily Baudelaire
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