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Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day must rank as the film with the least snappy title of 2014 and is a rare thing – a family film that’s NOT full of CGI!
Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) wakes up with gum in his hair, and things just get worse as his day progresses. He trips up on the skateboard, drops his sweater into the sink when it’s full of water, his siblings Anthony and Emily find loads of prizes in their cereal boxes, whereas he gets none, he doesn’t get the window seat in the carpool, his teacher doesn’t like his picture of an invisible castle, he’s criticised for singing too loud, his best friend deserts him for his third best friend, there’s no dessert in his lunchbag, the dentist tells him he has a cavity, the elevator door closes on his foot…
And then everything goes bad for everyone else in his family, too.
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day also stars Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner as his parents, Dylan Minnette and Kerris Dorsey as his siblings, and it’s due out in the UK on October 24th, so you’ve got a while to wait for it.
Check out the new trailer below:
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