Release Date: December 17, 2004
Produced by: Parmount & Nickelodeon Pictures
Co-starring: Liam Aiken (Klaus Baudelaire), Emily
Browning (Violet Baudelaire), Jim Carrey (Count Olaf), Jane
Adams, Cedric the Entertainer, Billy Connolly (Uncle Monty),
Jennifer Coolidge, Craig Ferguson, Luis Guzman, Jamie Harris,
Jude Law (Lemony Snicket), Timothy Spall (Mr. Poe), Meryl
Streep (Aunt Josephine)
Directed by: Brad Silberling
Jim's Role: Count Olaf
Rating: PG
This is the story of the Bauedelaires, three young orphans,
Violet (Browning), Klaus (Aiken) and Sunny, looking for a
new home, who are taken in by a series of odd relatives and
other people, including Lemony Snicket, who narrates the film,
and starting with the cunning and dastardly Count Olaf (Carrey),
who hopes to snatch their inheritance from them. Violet is
the oldest of the Baudelaires at 14, and is their brave and
fast-thinking leader. The only boy is middle child Klaus,
12, who is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words.
The youngest is infant Sunny, who speaks in a language only
her siblings can understand, and she has a tendency to...
bite.