The Nutcracker

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

5.020101h 48m

Released

Adventure

Fantasy

Family

Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2010-11-24

Runtime1h 48m

LanguagesEnglishDeutsch

CountriesUnited KingdomHungary

Budget$90,000,000

Revenue$20,466,016

Keywords

nazi

fairy

musical

based on play or musical

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1 total

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Cast & Crew

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)

Reviews

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 …

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