The Nutcracker Prince (1990)

Directed by

Paul Schibli

Genre

fantasy film, musical film, Christmas film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

G

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl named Clara receives a nutcracker doll from her uncle. She is pulled into a fantasy world where the nutcracker is actually a prince cursed by mice and she helps him break the spell.

whimsicalromanticmagicalmusicalgentleearnestfairy-taleanimated

What happens

The Nutcracker Prince is a 1990 Canadian animated romance fantasy film directed by Paul Schibli based on the screenplay by Patricia Watson. It is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and Marius Petipa & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker, about a girl named Clara who is gifted a special nutcracker by her uncle. The gift draws her into a world of magic and wonder, and she brings about the conclusion to the legend of The Nutcracker, Prince of the Dolls: a young man named Hans who was transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only break the spell if he slays the Mouse King. The film stars Kiefer Sutherland as Hans (The Nutcracker), Megan Follows as Clara, Mike MacDonald as the evil Mouse King, Peter O'Toole as Pantaloon, an old soldier, Phyllis Diller as the Mouse Queen, and Peter Boretski as Uncle Drosselmeier. The Nutcracker Prince was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on November 21, 1990, and by Cineplex Odeon Films in Canada on November 23, 1990. The film grossed $1.7 million worldwide against a production budget of $8.5 million. It generally received negative reviews from critics and was considered a commercial failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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