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About the Film

Year

2004

Rating

PG

Genre

Comedy

Running Time

107 MIN

Synopsis

Dear Viewer, If you enjoy movies filled with singing rabbits, exploding spaceships, or cheerleaders, you are looking at the wrong movie entirely. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a thrilling misadventure involving three ingenious orphans and a villainous actor named Count Olaf (Jim 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. I am bound to continue my research into the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, but you are free to seek lighter fare, like blue cheese fondue. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket.

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Where to Watch

Digital

About the Cast

Jim Carrey

Count Olaf

Jude Law

Lemony Snicket (Voice)

Liam Aiken

Klaus Baudelaire

Emily Browning

Violet Baudelaire

Timothy Spall

Mr. Poe

Kara Hoffman

Sunny Baudelaire

Catherine O'Hara

Justice Strauss

Shelby Hoffman

Sunny Baudelaire

Billy Connolly

Uncle Monty

Cedric The Entertainer

Constable

Luis Guzman

Bald Man

Jennifer Coolidge

White-Faced Woman

Jamie Harris

Hook-Handed Man

Meryl Streep

Aunt Josephine

Craig Ferguson

Person of Indeterminate Gender

About the Crew

Director

Brad Silberling

Producer

Jim Van Wyck

Producer

Scott Rudin

Producer

Walter Parkes

Producer

Laurie MacDonald

Producer

Albie Hecht

Producer

Julia Pistor

Writer

Lemony Snicket

Writer

Robert Gordon

Based on Novel By

Daniel Handler

Music Scoring

Thomas Newman