Elle Fanning in The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

Original title: The Nutcracker in 3D
Movie2010PG1h 50m
ActionFamilyFantasyMusical
4.1 / 10(4,528)

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

Rated
PG
Runtime
1h 50m
Released
2010
Country
United Kingdom, Hungary, Russia, Hong Kong, Italy, United States, Czech Republic, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland

Details

Release year: 2010

Storyline

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

Top credits

Cast
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Did you know

The film does not credit the original "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" story, nor its author E. T. A. Hoffmann.

This is the only version of "The Nutcracker" with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

During the scene where Mary first meets Sticks, Tinker, and Gielgud, when they are all downstairs of the dollhouse and Sticks appears to be spinning a drumstick with his fingers, he actually is not spinning it. He is just turning his hand so that it looks like the drumstick is spinning.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $195,459

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $65,944 (2010-11-28)

User reviews

3/10

Good visuals, but despicably tasteless and tone-deaf

👍 9 · 6/18/2020
3/10

Indeed. This story should NEVER have been told.

👍 4 · 2/6/2025
3/10

Visually spellbinding but charmless family fare

👍 35 · 12/3/2010

Technical specs

Sound mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
2.39 : 1
Color
Color
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