The Nutcracker

11/24/20101h 48m

Theatrical Release (US)

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

Overview:

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

Director:

Andrei Konchalovsky

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$90,000,000.00

Revenue:

$17,177,993.00

Key words:

nazi
fairy
musical
based on play or musical
ballet
vienna, austria
doll
rat
1920s
russian ballet
20th century
nutcracker

Cast

Elle Fanning

~ as ~

Mary

Nathan Lane

~ as ~

Uncle Albert

John Turturro

~ as ~

The Rat King

Frances de la Tour

~ as ~

The Rat Queen / Frau Eva

Charlie Rowe

~ as ~

The Prince / Nicholas Charles

Aaron Michael Drozin

~ as ~

Max

Richard E. Grant

~ as ~

Father

Yuliya Vysotskaya

~ as ~

Mother / The Snow Fairy

Jonny Coyne

~ as ~

Gnomad

Shirley Henderson

~ as ~

The Nutcracker (voice)

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Reviews (1)

j
jesseyu
Written 6 year(s) ago
7
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