Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
- fire
- sibling relationship
- murder
- inheritance
- steampunk
- mansion
- orphan
- orphan siblings
- unfortunate
- based on young adult novel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Emily Browning
Violet Baudelaire
Liam Aiken
Klaus Baudelaire
Kara Hoffman
Sunny Baudelaire
Shelby Hoffman
Sunny Baudelaire
- Jim Carrey — Count Olaf / Dr. Stephano / Captain Sham
- Timothy Spall — Mr. Poe
- Meryl Streep — Josephine Anwhistle
- Billy Connolly — Dr. Montgomery Montgomery
- Jude Law — Lemony Snicket
- Catherine O'Hara — Justice Strauss
- Jennifer Coolidge — White-Faced Women
- Jane Adams — White-Faced Women
- Craig Ferguson — Person of Indeterminate Gender
- Luis Guzmán — Bald Man
- Jamie Harris — Hook-Handed Man
- Directed
- Brad Silberling
- Written
- Robert Gordon
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 5,380 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Parkes+MacDonald Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
