There are bad days, and then there are terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days. It's an unavoidable fact of life that luck will not always be in one's favor—a truth which 11-year-old Alexander Cooper (Ed Oxenbould) is intimately familiar. What he doesn't realize is that everyone has them, and at the end of it all is usually a silver lining. Loosely based on Judith Viorst's classic 1972 children's book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" is a relatively slight but warm-hearted family comedy that keeps things buzzing along for a fleet, just-right 81 minutes. Indie director Miguel Arteta (he of 2002's "The Good Girl" and 2011's "Cedar Rapids") and first-time scribe Rob Lieber give the film an observant attention to character in between the comically charged havoc, helping to center the proceedings each time it threatens to jump the rails (and it comes mighty close when a kangaroo enters the scene).
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