Based on Daniel Handler's first three Lemony Snicket novels, this stylized gothic fairy tale unfolds in a Dickensian once-upon-a-time world, a Victorian England of the mind retrofitted with gee-whiz modern conveniences flawlessly realized by production designer Rick Heinrichs. The astringent Snicket, an investigator chronicling the misfortunes that befell three blameless orphans, narrates in the voice of Jude Law, but is seen only as a silhouette surrounded by whirring, oversize clockwork gears. There was once a most fortunate group of children named Baudelaire. Brilliant Violet (Emily Browning), 14, possessed a prodigious capacity for inventing useful things from ev...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
107 mins