Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; a Parkes/MacDonald production ; a Brad Silberling film ; produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Jim Van Wyck ; screenplay by Robert Gordon ; directed by Brad Silberling
Type
Label
Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; a Parkes/MacDonald production ; a Brad Silberling film ; produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Jim Van Wyck ; screenplay by Robert Gordon ; directed by Brad Silberling
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Rated PG; for thematic elements, scary situations and brief language
Main title
Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
57546451
Responsibility statement
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; a Parkes/MacDonald production ; a Brad Silberling film ; produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Jim Van Wyck ; screenplay by Robert Gordon ; directed by Brad Silberling
Runtime
107
Series statement
Widescreen DVD collection
Summary
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off watching some other movie," warns our narrator, Lemony Snicket. "In this movie," he continues gravely, "not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle." This is the story of the Baudelaire children -- three "clever and reasonably attractive orphans"--Who embark on a shaky adventure after their home burns down, killing their parents. Violet is the eldest, a serious-minded girl with a knack for inventing things. Klaus is a brainy book-lover who retains every word he's ever read. And Sunny, barely more than an infant, has the unique distinction of being very good at biting things -- sometimes right through things
Table Of Contents
Bad beginning -- Your new guardian -- Chores -- Custody granted -- Reptile room -- Stephano arrives -- Incredibly deadly viper -- Aunt Josephine -- Captain Sham -- Hurricane Herman -- Lachrymose leeches -- Marvelous marriage -- Let the wedding begin -- No one listens to children -- Letter that never came -- End titles
Target audience
pre adolescent
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Series of unfortunate events
Classification
Contributor
- Law, Jude, 1972-
- Snicket, Lemony
- Streep, Meryl
- Coolidge, Jennifer
- Aiken, Liam
- Carrey, Jim, 1962-
- Parkes, Walter F
- Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Cedric, the Entertainer, 1965-
- Gordon, Robert, 1960-
- MacDonald, Laurie
- O'Hara, Catherine
- Connolly, Billy
- Guzmán, Luis, 1956-
- Van Wyck, Jim
- Silberling, Bradley
- Nickelodeon Movies
- DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006)
- Browning, Emily, 1988-
- Spall, Timothy, 1957-
Subject
- Children's films
- Baudelaire, Sunny (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Snicket, Lemony -- Film and video adaptations
- Orphans -- Drama
- Baudelaire, Violet (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Baudelaire, Klaus (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Inheritance and succession -- Drama
Director
Is Part Of
resource.screenwriter
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor20
- Law, Jude, 1972-
- Snicket, Lemony
- Streep, Meryl
- Coolidge, Jennifer
- Aiken, Liam
- Carrey, Jim, 1962-
- Parkes, Walter F
- Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Cedric, the Entertainer, 1965-
- Gordon, Robert, 1960-
- MacDonald, Laurie
- O'Hara, Catherine
- Connolly, Billy
- Guzmán, Luis, 1956-
- Van Wyck, Jim
- Silberling, Bradley
- Nickelodeon Movies
- DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006)
- Browning, Emily, 1988-
- Spall, Timothy, 1957-
- Genre3
- Subject9
- Children's films
- Baudelaire, Sunny (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Snicket, Lemony -- Film and video adaptations
- Orphans -- Drama
- Baudelaire, Violet (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Baudelaire, Klaus (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Inheritance and succession -- Drama
- Director1
- Is Part Of1
- Producer3
- resource.screenwriter1
- Mapped to1