Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The plight of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans springs to big screen life in this fantastical adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s deliciously dark young adult novels. The Baudelaires, cloaked in dark garments and wearing appropriately long faces, run in a gothic world made of flying buttresses, black seas, and amethyst skies. The film boasts an all-star cast, with Jude Law as Lemony Snicket himself, the author hard at work, creating his harrowing tale even as we watch it unfold. Jim Carrey returns to his commedia roots as Count Olaf, the orphans’ evil thespian uncle, who keeps trying to steal their inheritance. After narrowly escaping the Count’s diabolical plan to knock them off in a train wreck, the orphans find respite with their jittery Aunt Josephine (Meryl Streep). But the unfortunate Baudelaires can’t successfully elude their nasty uncle; he keeps popping up in disguise, hatching scheme after dirty scheme to get at their loot.