The Christmas Nutcracker is an endearing reworking of the classic tale of the Nutcracker set in 1940’s rural Canada during World War II.
It begins with
12-year-old Clara (Janelle Jorde) walking along a lonely road through the snowy
forest heading home where her mother (Helene Joy) and brothers Billy and Frank
(Ryan Grantham and Brendan Meyer) are waiting for her to return so they can
celebrate Christmas Eve, and she is grasping in her hand a post card from her
father (Tom Carey) who is a prisoner of war in Germany.
But before she reaches
home a kindly wizard named Drosselmeyer (Brian Cox) appears who knows
everything about her and her family so Clara invites him to Christmas Eve
supper after which he takes her on a quest through a strange magical world to set
her father free in time for Christmas Day.
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