Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986)

Directed by

Carroll Ballard

Genre

musical film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

G

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl receives a nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. She is transported to a magical kingdom where the nutcracker comes to life and battles the Mouse King.

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What happens

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, also known as Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker or simply Nutcracker, is a 1986 American Christmas performing arts film produced by Pacific Northwest Ballet in association with Hyperion Pictures and Kushner/Locke, and released theatrically by Atlantic Releasing Corporation. It is a film adaptation of 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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