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The Nutcracker

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5.0/10 • 192

2010-11-241h 48m

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Experience the Holiday Classic as You've Never Seen it Before

In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

Directors
Andrei Konchalovsky
Writters
Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine
Editors
Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine, Andrew Glen

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Elle Fanning

    Elle Fanning

    Mary

  2. Nathan Lane

    Nathan Lane

    Uncle Albert

  3. John Turturro

    John Turturro

    The Rat King

  4. Frances de la Tour

    Frances de la Tour

    The Rat Queen / Frau Eva

  5. Charlie Rowe

    Charlie Rowe

    The Prince / Nicholas Charles

  6. Aaron Michael Drozin

    Aaron Michael Drozin

    Max

  7. Richard E. Grant

    Richard E. Grant

    Father

  8. Yuliya Vysotskaya

    Yuliya Vysotskaya

    Mother / The Snow Fairy

  9. Jonny Coyne

    Jonny Coyne

    Gnomad

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jesseyu

Jan 22, 2019

7/10

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 this one a bad rating. And comparing this to the more recent Nutcracker movie which we watched after this one, the new one was from Disney and was obviously budgeted a lot more with bigger stars so we were sort of expecting a lot more. But we were let down by the newer offering as the plot was severely lacking excitement there. It was boring. And in the end, hard to care for. This one at least, for me and my boy, offered a bit of excitement and action and got us a bit more invested in while watching. Rating: 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$90,000,000.00
Revenue
$17,177,993.00
Keywords
nazifairymusicalbased on play or musicalalbert einsteinballetvienna, austriadollrat1920srussian ballet20th centurynutcracker