Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (K)

Anyone can have a bad day, but no one wants to have one quite as awful as seven year old Alexander’s. Whether it’s his mother forgetting to pack dessert in his lunch, or the dentist discovering he has a new cavity, nothing goes right for Alexander from sun-up to sun-down. Alexander will not only win children’s sympathy, he’ll remind the child in every adult how those little tragedies can accumulate to make an otherwise normal day seem like a catastrophe. Based on the best selling children’s book by Judith Viorst.

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Credits

producer

Bernard Wilets

Duration

00:14:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300951

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Childrens Films

Childrens Films → Children 0-6

Literature → Children's literature - Film and video adaptations

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1988

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