Only one thing can make this day better: Getting super fucked-up on cough syrup.
  • "Only one thing can make this day better: Getting super fucked-up on cough syrup."

In expanding the 32-page kids' book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day into an 81-minute movie, filmmakers Miguel Arteta and Rob Lieber take some liberties.

In the film, Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) is a disaster-prone kid whose life is one mishap after another, from scheduling a birthday party on the same night as the most popular kid in school's party, to setting the science lab on fire while trying to impress a girl. Alexander's family members, though, seem to sail through life: Mom (Jennifer Garner) is an up-and-comer in publishing, Dad (Steve Carell) cheerfully plays stay-at-home caretaker, and his siblings are annoyingly perfect. Cue Alexander's birthday wish: That the rest of his family might know, for once, what it's like to have a really bad day…

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