Happened to see this movie today...
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 film, directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three books in Lemony Snicket's popular series of children's novels: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window. It was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Following the rather unfortunate adventures of Violet,Sunny and Klaus Baudelaire,we end up having a lot of fun and simultaneously feeling extremely sorry for the orphans.
It stars Jim Carrey as Count Olaf, Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine, Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty, Emily Browning as Violet, Liam Aiken as Klaus, Kara & Shelby Hoffman as Sunny, and Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket. The film tie-in editions of the novels feature a variation on the usual reverse-psychology blurb: the blurb takes the form of a message from Count Olaf, listing the good points of the story (such as "a dashing count") but suggesting that it would be much easier and less boring to watch the movie instead.
Jim Carrey is fabulous as the evil "uncle" who is after the fortune....
It ends with a beautiful thought.... "Sometimes A Series of Unfortunate Events is a beginning of a new journey ".... :)
hmm....