Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

A gothic-tinged storybook adventure where terrible things happen to orphans with deadpan regularity, told with enough dark humor and visual whimsy to keep the mood closer to mischievous than truly grim. It's a film that revels in misfortune as spectacle, narrating the Baudelaire children's increasingly elaborate escapes from a scheming villain with theatrical flair.