Nutcracker

1986
G
1h 29min

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6,8/10

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe colorful holiday classic is brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written to be as close to the original story. Based on the... Tout lireThe colorful holiday classic is brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written to be as close to the original story. Based on the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.The colorful holiday classic is brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written to be as close to the original story. Based on the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.

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NOTE IMDb

6,8/10

1,5 k

MA NOTE

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
According to director Carroll Ballard, the budget was so small that the film had to be shot in only 10 days.

Gaffes
Midway through "The Waltz of the Flowers", as the camera pans right, a still picture photographer is visible in the lower right frame.

Citations
Adult Clara (narrator): The Christmas parties of long ago all blur and mix in memory. The real and the unreal become as one.

Crédits fous
Wade Walthall is listed in the credits as playing the Nutcracker, when in fact he plays the Nutcracker Prince. The Nutcracker himself is billed in the credits as "Fighting Nutcracker", and is played by Jacob Rice.

Versions alternatives
Current (2009) prints of the film feature the MGM roaring lion logo at the beginning. This is because MGM now owns the Atlantic Pictures library.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home/An American Tail/Firewalker/Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986)

Bandes originales
The Nutcracker
Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71)
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras

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8/10

A fresh, inspiring performance of Tchaikovsky's balletic masterpiece

PickMePickMe's commentary is almost three years old now, but it isn't too late to completely refute it. What was this reviewer watching? As far as the performers and dancing is concerned, this troupe has been 'fooling' the people of the US Northwest for over twenty years now with the Sendak Nutcracker. Tell it to the annual sold out performances!

As for the production itself, it couldn't be more cinematic without losing its balletic base. The Drosselmeyer toyshop background for the overture, for example, isn't even seen on stage, nor are the soaring views of Clara's living room. I could go on, but I suspect that PMPM is locked into to the wooden performances of the seventies, well represented in the current VHS/DVD world.

The overall production, as far as Nutcrackers go, is a stupendous, breathtaking affair and very accurately implies the dark E.T.A. Hoffmanesque background of the ballet.

The only letdown associated with it is the lack of a DVD, with which everyone's Christmas would surely brighten.