Nasty in more ways than one, Count Olaf mistreats the children, leading them to quickly discover that he only wants their money. Poe, arranges for the orphans to live with a guardian, a creepy distant relative named Count Olaf. The executor of the Baudelaire parents' will and keeper of the family fortune, Mr. When the Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, learn that their parents have perished in a fire at the family mansion, the children's rocky course is set for misery and misadventure (enough to fill the projected 13 volumes of this clever book series). Relates the sad saga with pity and enlightenment sparked by dashes of humor. British actor Tim Curry, whose reputation for playing dastardly villain types precedes him, is terrific in this adaptation of the intentionally over-the-top, slightly scary tale of the Baudelaire orphans.
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