Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events (2004)

LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004)

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Dear Viewer,
    If you enjoy movies filled with singing rabbits, exploding spaceships, or cheerleaders, you are holding the wrong DVD entirely.
    This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a thrilling misadventure involving three ingenious orphans and a villainous actor name Count Olaf (Carrey) who wants their enormous fortune." It includes a suspicious fire, delicious pasta, Jim Carrey, poorly behaved leeches, an incredibly deadly viper, Meryl Streep, and the voice of an impostor named Jude Law. The only things that could make such a spectacle more upsetting are special features, such as commentary by me or outtakes involving nervous laughter.
    I am bound to continue my research into the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, but you are free to seek lighter fare, like bleu cheese fondue.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket

RATING: PG

STARRING:

Jim Carrey: Count Olaf
Liam Aiken: Klaus
Emily Browning: Violet
Timothy Spall: Mr. Poe
Catherine O'Hara: Justice Strauss
Billy Connolly: Uncle Monty
Cedric The Entertainer: Constable
Luis Guzman: Bald Man
Jennifer Coolidge: White Faced Woman
Meryl Streep: Aunt Josephine

AND STARRING THE VOICE TALENTS OF:

Jude Law: Lemony Snicket

YEAR OF RELEASE: 2004

SCREENWRITER: Robert Gordon

DIRECTOR: Brad Silberling

RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes

STUDIO: Paramount

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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(4 nominations and 1 win)

Best Art Direction - Rick Heinrichs (art director) and Cheryl Carasik (set decorator)
(nominated)

Best Costme Design - Colleen Atwood
(nominated)

Best Makeup - Valli O'Reilly and Bill Corso
(winner)

Best Original Song - Thomas Newman
(nominated)

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This movie is based on the children's book series known collectively as A Series Of Unfortunate Events written by Lemony Snicket. At the time of release this series had ten books and is scheduled to have a total of thirteen. While the film borrows some elements and situations from all of the books, this movie is based primarily on three specific books: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window.
Lemony Snicket, the book's author, is actually a pen name, the author's real name is Daniel Handler, who in addition to writing books is also a screenwriter, but interestingly enough was not asked to adapt his book for the screen.
The duck that nearly gets killed by the stove is the Aflack duck who is featured in the Aflack Insurance commercials.
Liam Aiken, who plays the middle sibling grew four and a half inches during the filming of this movie, by then end of this movie he is visibly taller than his older sister played by Emily Browning.
Emily Browning did not originally have her role as Violet, she actually replaced Christy Carlson Romano, who is most famous as being the voice of Kim Impossible on the cartoon Kim Impossible.

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