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Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,496 2010s adventure movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb4.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes0%
Metacritic18/100
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
210 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- Andrei KonchalovskyWriter
- Chris SolimineWriter
- Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Elle FanningMary
- Nathan LaneUncle Albert
- John TurturroThe Rat King
- Frances de la TourThe Rat Queen / Frau Eva
- Charlie RoweThe Prince / Nicholas Charles
- Aaron Michael DrozinMax
- Richard E. GrantFather
- Yuliya VysotskayaMother / The Snow Fairy
- Jonny CoyneGnomad
- Shirley HendersonThe Nutcracker (voice)
- Richard PhilippsDr. Freud
- Fernanda DorogiDr. Freud's Niece
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Themes
nazifairymusicalbased on play or musicalballetvienna, austriadollrat1920srussian ballet20th centurynutcracker