ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
October 10

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
October 10

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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Jump To: In Brief | Talking With The Cast and Movie Makers | Bella Thorne Tells Us About Playing Celia | Dylan Minnette Fills Us In on Bringing Anthony to Life | See Pictures From The Red Carpet Premiere!| Photo Gallery of Pics From The Film! |Our Review| Clips From The Movie|Fun Activities!

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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Release Date: October 10

Walt Disney Studios

Starring: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette, Ed Oxenbould, Kerris Dorsey, Megan Mullally, Jennifer Coolidge, Bella Thorne

Directed by: Miguel Arteta

Rated: PG

Official Web site: http://movies.disney.com/alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day/


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Disney's "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life-a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one. "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," directed by Independent Spirit Award-winner Miguel Arteta ("The Good Girl," "Cedar Rapids," "Youth in Revolt") from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, is a 21 Laps Entertainment/Jim Henson Company production. The film hits theaters nationwide Oct. 10, 2014.

See the trailer here:

Talking with the Cast and Movie Makers!

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Talking With the Cast That Became Like Family While Filming!

On October 10, Walt Disney Studios will release the very funny, family friendly movie called "Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" to theaters. The movie (based on the book by Judith Viorst) stars Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner as the parental units of the Cooper family. The unit also includes Anthony (played by Dylan Minnette), Emily (Kerris Dorsey), Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) and baby Trevor. Saying that collectively, the Coopers are having a very bad day is a major understatement.

The cast (including Bella Thorne who plays "Anthony's" girlfriend "Celia") reunited recently at a hotel in Beverly Hills to talk about the making of the film. The easy banter between them made it seem like no time at all had passed between the day filming ended and the press rounds currently taken place. Seeming very much like their parental roles in the film, Steve and Jennifer would make sure their "kids" had a chance to answer questions and take their turn in the spotlight. Here's what we learned from this group of insanely talented actors.

The first question was to Jennifer and Steve about how much input into the film they had as parents. "Steve and I are parents," Jennifer began. "Not together, but apart."

"And we're the best parents," Steve interjected sarcastically.

"Yeah, we definitely know what we're doing," Jennifer echoed matching his sarcastic tone. "We just piped up and made our thoughts known."

Steve concurred. "If anything rang false to us, we would speak up. But more often than not, things felt like they would feel in our house."

"Yes! For sure! This is basically a day at my house." Jen agreed.

A question posed to the younger cast members was "What was it like working with such notable actors like Steve and Jennifer?" Showing that the apple doesn't fall far from the fictional tree, Ed (Alexander) joked "My movie parents are better than my real parents." He then added seriously "They're incredible. They're amazing."

Kerris who plays their daughter Emily added "I'm such huge fans of both of them in their own right and all of your work (she gestures towards Steve and Jennifer). Being able to have them as parents was pretty cool and quite surreal for being a fan. It was cool to be a family together and sort of go through the day together and form a bond with each other. It was really fun."

The film features a very familiar face to Disney movie fans. Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins) appears in a scene in which he ends up screaming at Jennifer's character. What was that like the press wondered? "He can do whatever he wants. He's Dick Van Dyke," Jennifer says with a laugh. "It was such a total thrill to try to conceive, for my kids, that I was with 'Chim Chim Cher-ee' at work was so exciting. It was a great great day! The only thing that was odd was that I was there without the rest of these guys because we were such a unit, the whole time we made this movie that I felt a little bit like, 'I wished we were all here.'"

It wasn't the first time Steve and director Miguel Arteta had worked together. Miguel had actually directed an episode of "The Office." What was it like for Steve to work with him again? "I think a lot of it has to do with ensemble," Steve reasons. "I'd worked with Miguel on 'The Office,' and I thought he was a great director for 'The Office.' He had a handle on the characters and the comedy of it, but also the subtleties within the inter-personal relationships between all of those characters. So, to translate that to this kind of movie I thought was a really good move on Disney's part, frankly. He brings a subtlety and a specificity to the things that he works on. And I thought, 'For a movie like this, it could have very easily been straight down the middle and just completely broad and nothing else. I think he was able to find a very human quality to it, which is one of the reasons I love working with him."

"And in terms of the ensemble and the Second City nature of it all," he continued. "That's how I felt about it. Jen spoke to that really briefly about it before. We did feel like a unit and very quickly we all become friends. It sounds so cliche but we did feel like a family of sorts and had a lot of fun together that way. That's the way I like to work, in an ensemble where everybody feels they're equal parts."

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Bella plays a "Mean Girl" in the movie and one reporter asked if that was hard for her? "It's hard when I'm looking at Dylan," she answers sympathetically. "Dylan with his big freaking eyes looking at me! So sensitive and so 'please don't hurt me!' It was so hard! The dinner scene, I am so mean in it! They were just like, 'Meaner! Meaner!' And I'm just looking at Dylan and he's just looking [sad] and I'm just like 'Don't do that on my coverage! Just don't do that on my coverage!'

"We're actually not talking about on camera," Dylan jokes. "This is behind the scenes."

"It was hard to be mean!" Bella admits. "But at the same time, it's funny. You love to hate her."

Another journalist wondered if there was any preparation for the physical nature of the comedy and the stunts? "They taught me how to professionally crash a car," Dylan joked. "I don't think there was a lot of prep for stunts was there?"

Jennifer turned to Kerris. "They put you on a wire correct?"

"I worked with the stunt coordinator Garrett," Kerris confirms. "We did wire training day. It was just really fun! It wasn't scary at all. It's been my dream to play Peter Pan so... that was my prep in terms of stunts."

"That's kind of the great thing about this job in general," Jennifer added. "There's no way to learn it except on the job training. So these guys have a leg up on the rest of us."

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One question asked to the actors who are parents was "How do you lift your kid's spirits when they're having a bad day?" Steve answered this one saying, "My wife and I go through this, from time to time. Part of the challenge for us is not being overly sensitive to our kids having good or bad days. You could drive your kids crazy by saying, 'Are you okay? Is everything all right? Please tell me what's going on.' Sometimes you might just be having a quietly and privately bad day, and you just want to work through it yourself. You don't want to have your parents trying to make it better because, ultimately, we're not going to be there to make it better."

"That's the toughest part for us," he continued. "Holding back from always trying to make it perfect or make it ideal. Or if they get assigned to a class that doesn't have their best friends in it, to allow them to make new friends and to deal with things and to get past whatever it is. Life will give you twists and turns. To me, for my wife and I, that's our challenge, to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic."

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It was a very good day for both Kerris and Dylan when they were asked to add their music to the film's soundtrack. How did it come about? "Miguel called me a while after we finished filming and he said, 'Hey Kerris, I know that you write music, and you sing and I would love it if you wanted to write something for Alexander?' He knew my sister was a songwriter as well. He said, 'If you want to, you can write with her.' So I came to her and said 'Look, we have a short amount of time to write this song,' and we were trying to come up with concepts and figure it out. We watched the trailer of the movie and it said 'Get ready for the best worst day ever!' So we were like, 'That's a really good title! It's really catchy' and then we wrote the song. It plays at the end of the credits. It was already such a lovely experience to have that put into it as well, was just icing on the cake!"

Dylan echoes her sentiments. "It was the same thing for the Narwahls, which is the band I'm in."

"Dylan's amazing band by the way!" Bella interjects.

"They're so good!" seconds Kerris.

"Thanks!" Dylan says earnestly before continuing. "I just got a call that Miguel wanted us to have a song in the movie because he knew that I played music. And they wanted us to write a song for the film. But I said, I really think that we have a song that would fit this movie really well. It's called 'Surf Surf Don't Drown.' I really think that Disney and you should listen to it. They did and they loved it! They flew the guys down to Atlanta, because that's I was there. We recorded it. Now it's in the film for a minute or a two during a montage. So it's really exciting! I'm bringing the guys to the premiere. They're all really excited. Thanks to Miguel and his great heart we have our interest in it as well!"

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So what attracted the actors to wanting to play these roles? Ed fielded that question. "I loved the character of Alexander because he's just quite relatable I think. I can't relate to him completely because I'm not a full blown pessimist like he is. I think part of him is a terrible person. But I think other kids can relate to him slightly. I knew it would be fun to work with Jen and Steve and the other kids and it was!"

One reporter commented that this movie feels like a throwback to the live-action Disney movies some of us grew up on. Steve responded to that by saying "I hope this does set a trend. And it's one of the reasons that I was interested in doing it. I don't want to say throwback because there's a derogatory implication there. But these kinds of live-action family movies aren't done as often as they used to be. I was excited because it's a new take on that genre of movie. It's a director that's not necessarily known for mainstream movies, who is giving a different spin to it. So, I hope it is a trend that continues. I know my kids can't wait, and all of their friends care. I took my son aside the other day and said, 'Do you think your classmates really want to see this?' And he said, 'Yeah! Apart from you being in it, they're really excited about it.' It looks like something they want to see, and that was exciting to hear."

Dylan added, "For me, it kind of feels like a movie that I grew up with, that I enjoyed watching from ages one to now. It really does feel like a classic in the sense that it's a movie that should be made more of."

"You can go with your siblings, with your parents, with your friends," Kerris reasoned. "There's something in it for everyone. I feel like, it's nice to have a movie, you know, being a teenager, knowing that I could go see a movie with my parents and not feel really awkward and uncomfortable! Or go with my friends and still laugh and have a good time. Yeah, it's like you guys said, there aren't a lot of movies like that. I guess it's refreshing."

Were cast members familiar with the book prior to the movie? "Yeah, it's a mainstay at our house, for sure," Jennifer says. "My kids are over it, actually. Everyone is talking about it and talking about the movie, and my kids have seen the movie. It's off of our list, for now. I'm sure that this is not the way that this answer should be going. But it's going to come back around, don't worry!"

You guys LOVE it so much," Ed reasons, "you have to take a break from it and then it will come back."

How does the cast recommend turning a bad day around? "My Dad is kind of like Steve's character" Kerris states.

"He's a wonderful, wonderful man!" Steve chimes in and everyone laughs.

"He has a lot of optimism and that's sometimes a driving force. I think you have to have a beautiful balance of Steve's character and Jen's character like positivness and realism. So I think it comes from your parents and sort of, the heads of the family. And that's sort of how it is at my house. I have both of those influences on me. Everybody having a good attitude at the end of the day is always good."

When all is said and done, what does the cast hope the audience takes away from the movie? "That's a great question," Jennifer states. "I do feel so excited that we get to be a part of a real family movie that's going out into the world. And I do feel like with Bella and Dylan and Kerris, that this is a movie that teenagers should like. And I know that when I got to see it, I brought my five-year-old along and she loved it, too. Her favorite was Steve and the kangaroo. I do feel like this is a film that families can see, and I hope, at the end of it, it should make you feel more like a family and remind you that, whatever happens, you're all going through it together."

Be sure to gather your family and take them to see "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." Laughing together will be a memory that no one will soon forget!

More Random Quotes from the Cast:

Steve, what was it like working with so many kids?

Steve: It was great. They were so much fun, including the babies in this movie, which we all fell in love with. I have nothing but love for these special people.

What do you think the key is to being a great mother?

Jennifer: Have I cracked what it is to be a great mom? No. But, the great thing about being a parent is that every day is a fresh start. You always can say, "Today we're going to try this." And if it goes horribly, you say, "Today, we're throwing that out and we're trying this." That's part of what I like about being a mom, in general. But, I have enjoyed this new world of playing moms. This little kid whose mom is a teacher at my child's school said, "Mrs. Affleck is a lot like my mom. She gets to have a lot of other kids." And I feel that way. You form those relationships.

Did you ever have a very bad day, during the filming of this?

Jennifer: There's always a day where you look around and say, "This is the nadir of the making of this film." We had a day that was outside and really hot, and we had shot the same thing, all day. And the baby was crying.

Steve (fake whining): We were filming a movie and got hot. That's sad.

Jennifer: We had it in perspective. Thank you, Steve.

Ed: As Steve was saying, it really did feel like a real family.

Dylan: It felt like a real group effort too. Like we were all making this together. We all got through it together. It was great.

Is there a danger in being too positive, like the Coopers are?

Jennifer: Oh, for sure! Your kids need to be allowed to have a bad day, and you need to show them that it's okay to have a whole range of emotions. You should have them all. You should have range and anger and sadness, so there's a lot of room for joy and happiness, as well.

Bella Thorne Tells Us About Playing "Celia"

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Thanks to her role as "CeCe" on The Disney Channel's "Shake it Up," parts in motion pictures like "Blended" with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler and a singing career, Bella Thorne is one of the most recognizable faces to teens today.

In "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," Bella plays "Celia," the girlfriend of "Anthony Cooper" (played by Dylan Minnette). Celia is very excited about the upcoming Prom and wants to have the perfect night. Considering what a bad day the Cooper's are having, it's highly unlikely that Celia will get her wish.

We spoke to Bella about taking on this role, her most memorable day of filming and what's next for the super busy teen talent.

"I remember I was sent the script of it," Bella recalls of the first time she heard about the project. "It's Steve Carell [and] Jennifer, anything to work with those actors" she thought. "Then I really liked the script."

She knows that the audience is going to view Celia as a "mean girl," however; Bella doesn't see her that way. "I loved Celia! You have to think of her as a perfectionist. When a perfectionist tries to fix something and it becomes perfect, they're happy. What if, somebody comes in and messes that all up and it's not perfect anymore? Does that person get mad? Yeah! That's Celia! I think people try to play her as a villain. She's so mean in the movie. But really, she's just misunderstood from your point of view."

Did she do anything special to prepare for playing Celia? "I don't think that there's much to prepare for with a character like this because you meet this people every day. If I, let's just say, I like that coffee. What if somebody comes in and just knocks that coffee right over and spills it everywhere? Am I going to be mad? Most likely. I would be like 'Why did you just do that?' If this was shot from Celia's point of view, and in Celia's house with her family, and that got so messed up you would think 'Wow! Dylan is so rude! He's so mean! I can't believe that character did it!' But because you know his side of the story, and you know he's having an awful day and she end up getting stuck in it, it's just bad luck!"

Did Bella experience a terrible, horrible day while filming? Not really, but she came close. "Probably the day that I was called in at 4:30," she recalls. "My scene was the last scene of the day. There are six scenes. You know how long it takes to film one scene? A long time! So it is now, 11:30... late at night. There are some younger kids so they have to shoot them out first. It's a big scene! It's the dinner scene where I'm at that place and Steve gets caught on fire."

"They decide to do my close-up in the last twenty minutes of the day," she continues. "And let me tell you... that word that I have to say, the name of the restaurant... I could not get it right. You couldn't do anything to me that would make me get that word right. It was not going to happen. There's at least 25 takes of me messing it up. TWENTY FIVE takes of me messing up that word! I could not do it. And then when I finally did do it, then Dylan, we were so slap happy from working, he was just laughing at me because I kept messing it up. Then finally, the part I did get it right he laughed, so we had to redo that one. "

Bella was excited to add a character like Celia to her resume. "I hate playing the same roles. I won't do it. I've played agoraphobic, I've played a regular teenager who's just having problems in life. I've played gothic. I've played dark, disturbed. I've played this character. They're all so difference. That's what I love about them! I love putting myself in those positions. It makes me a good actor."

Bella does a great job in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Her character "Celia" is the catalyst for a lot of laughs. Lucky for fans, there are several Bella projects on the horizon. "I have a book series coming out with Random House. 'Autumn Falls' comes out November 11. I'm so excited! I have Amityville Horror, Home Invasion, Big Sky." We're not sure when this girl sleeps!

To keep up with Bella, follow her on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/BellaThorne

Dylan Minnette Fills Us In On Bringing Anthony to Life on The Big Screen!

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“I was born in Evansville Indiana,” Dylan begins when we sit down to talk with him about acting, music and being in “Alexander.” “I started acting in Chicago. I started coming out here for pilot season when I was like 8. Now I’ve been living here for about six years,” he says of making California his home.

Soon Dylan was landing roles on shows like “Lost,” “The Mentalist,” “Medium,” “Supernatural,” and the NBC series “Awake.” He was also showing up in movies like “Prisoners” with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal and “Labor Day” with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. More recently, he’s been popping up on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” and as the president’s son on “Scandal.” He couldn’t have been happier when he heard about the audition for “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”

“My audition process for this was very quickly,” he begins about landing the role of Anthony. “ I did a basic audition and then Miguel wanted to meet me. I met him and it was like the first time I had a meeting with the director where I had a really, really nice bond and a mutual respect between us because when I got there he had researched me a lot and knew that I was in a band. He asked me about the music. I just really liked that. I really appreciated that. I knew he was a great guy. “

“It was the first time, we had this connection, and he worked with me a lot on the two scenes that I had for it,” he continues about the initial meeting with the director. “When I left, I just felt like I got it. I got in the elevator and I go, ‘I feel like I got that job.’ I did! Also, when I got it, it was the first time that I got a phone call from a director to say that he was so excited.”

“I would describe Anthony as a very confident teenage guy in school who feels like nothing is going wrong.” He says of his character. “He has everything going right in his life. I think he’s a good guy. He has a good heart. He means well. He can give off the wrong vibe, like a very cocky, conceited kind of guy. I think he really means well. He really wants to please everyone. He wants to especially please himself. He really wants to please his girlfriend. He’s trying.”

And what did he draw from to piece Anthony together? “I guess just personal experience, people that are confident around me. There’s a lot of people in this town that are very confident who are my age, so drawing off them really.”

Landing this role allowed Dylan to work with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner, two incredibly talented veteran actors. What was that like? “It’s like an irreplaceable experience,” he reasons. “I keep saying that there was a very short list of people that I want to work with and Steve was in the top 3. It was nice to check off the list, and Jennifer as well. She’s just the nicest person on the planet. She’s just so talented and so caring.”

“I’m sure that everyone’s been saying this and it sounds so cliché but we were genuinely a family making this. It felt like a family effort to make it. It was a really good experience.”

What was his most memorable scene to film? “The most fun that we had filming was probably the party scene because there’s all the people and animals and the kids and swimming and music. It was three days. It was a really fun time. We looked forward every day to going to work on the party!”

Wasn’t he scared of the crocodiles that make a guest appearance at the party? “No they were tame!” he assures us. “They had them under control. It was fun to be able to pet kangaroos and wallabies. I never get to do that in any other situation.”

What did the cast do for fun during their downtime? “We did some pranks here and there but I think a lot of it was, Ed was in school and he had like a lot of science projects in school so we would do a lot of mentos in coke a lot, in the diet coke. We would run around the set and try to pull pranks on people. A lot of it had to do with Ed’s science experiments. I would just kind of visit it in school because I wasn’t doing school. We had a lot of fun!”

Dylan admits that this role was a valuable learning experience for him. “What I think I can take away from this in doing comedy is to not really try as hard when you’re doing comedy. You have to give an effort but I feel like the more of vibe you get that you’re not giving an effort, is the funnier you’ll be. So if you’re trying too hard to be funny, you’re not going to be funny. But if you’re just effortless, like Steve, just effortlessly hilarious, you’re going to be really funny. So I feel like ‘just don’t try too hard, don’t think about it too much,’ just say your lines the way you think is funny and just try to make people laugh. I learned a lot on how to handle comedy cause I didn’t know how to. I think that I got a lot of confidence. I didn’t think I was funny. I didn’t think I could be funny. Leaving this, I feel like I can do comedy and I know how to do it now. I have confidence in it now.”

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Another thing you should know about Dylan is that he is also a musician. “I’m very, very passionate about it. I really want it to happen,” he says sincerely. He’s in a band called the Narwhals. “I sing and play guitar. There are four of us. “

How would he describe their style? “I would say alternative rock. Inspirations for us are like The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Arcadia Fire, those are big influences on us.” The band even has a song on the movie’s soundtrack. You should definitely check them out.

Up next for Dylan is another project from a very famous book series. “Keep your eyes out for ‘Goosebumps.’ I filmed that this year, based off the books from the nineties. It will be out next summer. I’m such a huge, huge Goosebumps fan so it’s kinda surreal to be a part of it.”

What advice would Dylan give teens that are having a “very bad day?” “I say, ‘You know what? If the day’s already going bad and you’re half way through the day, just know that for the rest of the day, everything is going to go wrong for the rest of the day, if everything is already going wrong. So when that happens, it might not be as bad as you thought it was going to be.”

Be sure to catch Dylan as “Anthony Cooper” in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He’s certainly a young actor (And Musician! Bonus!) that is worth keeping an eye on!

More thoughts from Dylan:

On working with Disney:

It was amazing. Everyone’s so nice. We also get free trips to Disneyland so that’s great! There’s great spirits. No one’s been mean. No one’s upset about anything. Everyone’s just really hopeful and positive about this. I have faith that Disney’s doing a really good job with this.

On his dream role:

I’m too old now but when I was younger, there was a book series called “Artemis Fowl.” When I was younger I always wanted to play ‘Artemis’ but I’m too old now!

On whom he’d like to work with in the future:

Will Ferrell, I would love to work with! I just worked with Jack Black in Goosebumps and he was amazing! That was a great experience that I can’t repeat. Leonardo DiCaprio is a great actor. People like that!

Learn more about Dylan by following him on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/DylanMinnette

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"Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" Will Make Your Day A Little Better!

Alexander Cooper (Ed Oxenbould) is having a bad day. To make matters worse, it seems like no one in his family understands because their lives are just perfect. Well, that’s about to change.

His Dad (the very funny Steve Carell) has been unemployed for months and has been acting as a stay-at-home Dad. He finally lines up a job interview with a company that he would really like to work with, only there is no one to watch Baby Trevor. He ends up having to take the baby with him to the interview. And things just go downhill from there.

Mom, Kelly, (Jennifer Garner) has a job with a big time publishing company and this day is very important. Celebrity Dick Van Dyke of Mary Poppins’ fame is doing a reading of a new book that is about to hit stands. Only moments before his big reading, Kelly discovers a very big, embarrassing typo. It’s too late, America’s Sweetheart, Mr. Van Dyke, proceeds to read it out loud anyway. And so begins a very bad day for Kelly.

Alexander’s perfect older brother Anthony (played by Dylan Minnette) has the perfect girlfriend (Bella Thorne as Celia) and the perfect Prom planned. All that stands in the way of him and the perfect night is a little thing like taking the Driver’s test and getting his license. No problem right? Wrong! You know that saying, “Anything that can go wrong, will?” Maybe Dylan isn’t so perfect after all.

Emily is the only girl among the Cooper children (played by the always on point, Kerris Dorsey). She has been practicing very hard because she has the lead in the school’s production of “Peter Pan.” Today of all days, Emily has a cold. She takes a little cough syrup to get her through. And then a little more. Let’s just say that this Peter Pan is flying a little higher than she should be. Hilarious disaster ensues.

Anyone who has had a bad day knows that feeling alone in your misery makes everything worse. Somehow, having a family to understand and help get you through it makes everything better.

“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day” is a treat that the whole family can enjoy together. Sure, a lot of the big laughs can be found in the movie’s trailer; however, there are enough surprises to keep you laughing in the theater.

Pack up all your favorite “Bigs” and “Littles” and head to the theater together. This film might just make your worst bad day look no so bad after all.

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