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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
PG
2010
1h 48m
[Family](/on-demand/category/family), [Fantasy](/on-demand/category/fantasy)
4.1
28%
5.0
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In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
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Cast of The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
Elle Fanning
Mary / Songs
Nathan Lane
Uncle Albert
John Turturro
The Rat King
Frances de la Tour
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
Charlie Rowe
The Prince / Nicholas Charles
Aaron Michael Drozin
Max
Richard E. Grant
Father
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Mother / The Snow Fairy
Jonny Coyne
Gnomad
Shirley Henderson
The Nutcracker (voice)
Richard Philipps
Dr. Freud
Fernanda Dorogi
Dr. Freud's Niece
Kriszta Dorogi
Dr. Freud's Niece
Dániel Mogács
Trolley Bus Orchestra Conductor
Stuart Hopps
Butler / The Rat Queen's Servant
Daniel Peacock
Gielgud
Peter Elliott
Gielgud
Alan Cox
Gielgud (voice)
Hugh Sachs
Tinker
Africa Nile
Sticks
The Nutcracker: The Untold Story Ratings & Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Delivering the cinematic equivalent of a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking, The Nutcracker in 3D is an apparent Scrooge-like attempt by Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky to forever ruin children's associations with the classic Yuletide ballet.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
I have my theories on the true inspiration motivating the madness here. Something tells me if I bit into the negative, it might taste like whisky, insomnia, and repressed childhood trauma.
Cinematical
William Goss
The whole thing is just so astoundingly wrongheaded.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
One of the most wretched, misguided extravaganzas ever mounted on the big screen...a stale schnitzel.
Movieline
Michelle Orange
An inchoate hash of classical children's themes and twentieth century flashpoints.
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
The best part of this variation on the classic ETA Hoffmann story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" is Elle Fanning, but it's unreasonable to expect a child to support the weight of a resolutely un-magical fantasy film.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Andrey Konchalovskiy botches history.
Slate
Dana Stevens
This non-balletic adaptation by the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky is something gnarled and stunted and wrong, something that should never have been allowed to see the light of day. How's that for a holiday-ad pullquote?
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
[It] has so many terrible ideas that the terrible execution is almost irrelevant: Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.
New York Times
Mike Hale
The Viennese scenes, shot on Budapest soundstages, give a new, dreary meaning to "workmanlike."
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Spectacularly misconceived, bloated and incredibly ugly...
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
From what dark night of the soul emerged the wretched idea for "The Nutcracker in 3D"?
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Imagine watching Tchaikovsky's ballet after taking a handful of peyote -- on a day when all of the dancers call in sick and the orchestra decides to play a different set of the composer's works.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Your Thanksgiving turkey has arrived on schedule and it's called "The Nutcracker in 3D."
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
At worst, it's a joke, an exercise in treacly bad taste, a $90 million pain in the retinas.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Who had the lamebrained idea for a post-apocalyptic 3-D Nutcracker that is lacking any trace of ballet?
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?
Variety
John Anderson
The familiarity of the music may actually be a disadvantage; the ear wants the melodies to conform to one's memory of them, but instead they've been tortured into compliance with the needs of a standard movie musical.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Konchalovsky's holiday fable confirms its chosen technology as not simply a gimmick, but a veritable crime against both cinema and moviegoers' wallets.confirms
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