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Loading... Nutcracker: The Motion Picture [1986 film]by Carroll Ballard (Director)
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Ballard’s other notable film is The Black Stallion. Sendak is the well-known children’s book author/illustrator. The core of the film, the dream journey of Clara and the Nutcracker prince, takes place within the artifice of a stage setting that has Sendak’s signature all over it. Wonderful combination of great photography & music, fantastic sets, excellent dancing. Although the spotlight is on the dancing of dream Clara (Patricia Barker) and the Nutcracker Prince (Wade Walthall), both experienced professional ballet dancers, & there are dances performed by other professionals (Dance of the Snowflakes & the Russian Dance), the Pacific Northwest Ballet has many children & adolescents in its school, and many of the ensemble dances & dream sequences are performed by the younger people. The frame story, derived from the short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, might be a little scary for the youngest, with the three-headed Rat King & One-Eyed Drosselmeier (Hugh Duncan Bigney Mitchell), and adults might find the relationship between Drosselmeier and young Clara (Vanessa Sharp) uncomfortable, but overall one of my favorite holiday movies. ( )