Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket's book series. The film stars Jim Carrey, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Meryl Streep, Catherine O'Hara and Kara and Shelby Hoffman, with narration by Jude Law. A Series of Unfortunate Events tells the story of Count Olaf, a mysterious theater troupe actor, who attempts to deceive three orphans over their deceased parents' fortune. It is also the film that makes use of the end title sequences that precedes the closing credits of the movie, its movie title appears at the end, rather than a beginning, which shows The Littlest Elf.

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