The Nutcracker

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

5.0(205)20101h 48m

AdventureFantasyFamily

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.

Director

Andrei Konchalovsky

Budget

$90.0M

Revenue

$20.5M

Cast

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

Jonny Coyne

Gnomad

Shirley Henderson

The Nutcracker (voice)

Richard Philipps

Dr. Freud

Fernanda Dorogi

Dr. Freud's Niece

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1 review

jesseyu

7y ago

7.0

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 th...