A Series of Unfortunate Events 🎥 2017 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Investigator Lemony Snicket documents the whereabouts of the Baudelaire children: 14-year-old inventor Violet, her 12-year-old bibliophile brother Klaus, and their mordacious infant sister Sunny, after they are orphaned when their parents die in a mysterious fire that has destroyed their entire home. Mr. Poe, the family banker, manages their affairs and leaves them in the care of Count Olaf, a nefarious stage actor intent upon obtaining their family fortune, which will remain in the custody of the bank until Violet turns eighteen. The Baudelaires are treated cruelly by Olaf, who belittles them and forces them to do all his housework.

After Olaf legally obtains custody of the children, he attempts to kill them by locking them in his car, which he parks on railway tracks. The Baudelaires divert an oncoming train by building a device to remotely activate the railroad switch, after which Mr. Poe sees the children alone in the car and removes them from Olaf’s custody, thinking Olaf was allowing them to drive while underage. The orphans are taken to live with eccentric and kind herpetologist Dr. Montgomery “Uncle Monty” Montgomery, who plans on bringing the children with him on an expedition to Peru.

When Uncle Monty’s new assistant “Stephano” arrives, the Baudelaires immediately see that he is Count Olaf in disguise and attempt to warn Uncle Monty, but he instead suspects Stephano is after his latest discovery, The Incredibly Deadly Viper. The morning they are set to leave for Peru, Uncle Monty is found dead, seemingly from being attacked by the viper, though the children are certain that Olaf murdered him. They are almost placed in Stephano’s care by Mr. Poe, but Sunny proves his guilt by showing that the snake is harmless, and Stephano escapes. Mr. Poe takes the children to Lake Lachrymose to live with their Aunt Josephine, a grammar-obsessed widow with panphobia.

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