Ben has to take Trevor with him to the interview, after dropping Kelly off at work. Kelly's car is dead, due to Emily's having left the light on the previous night and draining the battery. Plus, Anthony wakes up to find a giant zit on his forehead. The next morning, Alexander wakes up to find the rest of his family in chaotic disarray: his parents have overslept Emily has a cold from rehearsing in the car Celia has broken up with Anthony, due to her overhearing and misinterpreting a conversation between him and Alexander the night before. That night, Alexander puts a candle on a homemade birthday sundae, wishing that everyone in his family could relate to what he is going through. When he tries to tell his family about his bad day however, nobody is very sympathetic due to being focused on the good things happening to them.

That morning, Alexander experiences a series of mishaps at school: accidentally setting fire to his crush Becky Gibson's notebook his classmate Elliot sends a humiliating photoshopped image of him to the whole school and he finds out that his friends – including Becky, and even his best friend Paul – will all be attending Philip Parker's 12th birthday party, instead of Alexander's the next day, due to Philip's expensive party entertainment and popularity. Living in suburban Los Angeles, Alexander Cooper often feels left out by his family: baby brother Trevor elder siblings Anthony and Emily and their parents, Kelly and Ben.Īnthony is trying to earn his driver's license so he can drive his demanding and sharp-tongued girlfriend, Celia Rodriguez, to the junior prom Emily is rehearsing for the title role in her Peter Pan school play Kelly works for a publication company on a new children's book which will get her promoted to vice-president of said company Ben, who has been unemployed for seven months, has landed an interview for a job as a video game designer. It is one of the only films produced by The Jim Henson Company to not feature any puppets. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a success at the box office, grossing $100.6 million worldwide against a $28 million budget. Co-produced by Shawn Levy and Lisa Henson for Walt Disney Pictures through their respective production companies, 21 Laps Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company, the film was released in North America on October 10, 2014.

The film stars Steve Carell, Ed Oxenbould and Jennifer Garner, and is loosely based on Judith Viorst’s 1972 children's book of the same name. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Miguel Arteta from a screenplay written by Rob Lieber.

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