The Nutcracker | |
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Directed by | Emile Ardolino |
Written by | Susan Cooper (narration) |
Based on | Peter Martins's stage production of The Nutcracker |
Produced by | Robert Hurwitz Robert A. Krasnow |
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Narrated by | Kevin Kline |
Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
Edited by | Girish Bhargava |
Music by | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $19 million[1] |
Box office | $2.1 million[1] |
The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas ballet film based on Peter Martins's stage production and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel, Kyra Nichols, Bart Robinson Cook, Macaulay Culkin, Jessica Lynn Cohen, Wendy Whelan, Margaret Tracey, Gen Horiuchi, Tom Gold, and the New York City Ballet.
The film was released by Warner Bros. under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label on November 24, 1993, four days after director Ardolino died. It received mixed reviews and was a box office failure, grossing only $2 million.