Adventure · Fantasy
The Nutcracker
Experience the Holiday Classic as You've Never Seen it Before
On Christmas Eve in 1920s Vienna, a young girl named Mary and her brother are visited by their eccentric uncle Albert, who gifts a magical wooden nutcracker that comes to life and takes her to a fantasy world to fight the evil Rat King.
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Elle Fanning
Mary
Nathan Lane
Uncle Albert
John Turturro
The Rat King
Frances de la Tour
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
Charlie Rowe
The Prince / Nicholas Charles
Aaron Michael Drozin
Max
Richard E. Grant
Father
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Mother / The Snow Fairy
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jesseyu
7/101/22/2019
I watched this back-to-back with the newer (as of January, 2019) Nutcracker movie (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms [2018]) and I liked this one better as it is more attuned for kids and as my 10-year-old said, it's more "Christmassy" than the Four Realms one. I can understand the low ratings as maybe those who rated this low might have been expecting a holiday movie and was turned off by the heavily sci-fi and dystopian society renderings. Well, for me it wasn't that bad. I wasn't expecting anything as I never knew about any of the original Nutcracker story that this might have been based on or haven't seen a Nutcracker ballet performance. I just wanted to watch a holiday movie with my family and this looked okay. Story seemed simple and child-friendly enough that I wouldn't give th
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