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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
★ 6.8 · 5,263 ratings on TMDB
Mishaps. Misadventures. Mayhem. Oh joy.
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.
DirectorBrad Silberling
The emergence reading
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, law, exploitation, identity.
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