 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Starring: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman
Directed by: Brad Silberling
Screenplay by: Daniel Handler, Robert Gordon
Release Date: December 17, 2004
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements, scary situations and brief language.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
 Domestic: $118,634,549 (56.7%)
Foreign: $90,439,096 (43.3%)
Total: $209,073,645 (Worldwide)
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 You'll be extremely alarmed to learn that two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, an outrageously diabolical actor and master of disguise who is determined to swindle the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune in “Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.”
The film also stars two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep as the children's overanxious Aunt Josephine and two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket. The result is a dreadful spectacle, a phrase that here means, “it will stir the imagination of the entire family as it shatters the mold of adventure stories and evokes the magic of truly classic entertainment.”
From the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, to Victorian-era moralistic fables, to the twisted works of Roald Dahl, there is a long tradition in children's literature of absurdly awful things happening to perfectly nice children.
The eleven books written and narrated by the mysterious Lemony Snicket - whom some accuse of being the same person as 34-year-old author Daniel Handler - take that tradition to new heights…and drop it off a cliff. In a perplexing sign of the state of children and evil Counts today, Mr. Snicket's novels have won widespread critical praise and popular acclaim.
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