Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

"Nutcracker (1986 film)" and "Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker" redirect here. For other films with similar titles, see Nutcracker (disambiguation).

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
Original theatrical release poster
Directed byCarroll Ballard
Based on
Produced by
StarringPacific Northwest Ballet
CinematographyStephen H. Burum
Edited by
Music byPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Production
companies
Distributed byAtlantic Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • November 26, 1986 (1986-11-26)
Running time
85 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$781,727[2]

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, also known as Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker or simply Nutcracker, is a 1986 American Christmas performing arts film produced by Pacific Northwest Ballet in association with Hyperion Pictures and Kushner/Locke, and released theatrically by Atlantic Releasing Corporation. It is a film adaptation of 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

  1. ^ "Nutcracker (U)". British Board of Film Classification. May 12, 1987. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Nutcracker: The Motion Picture", Box Office Mojo, retrieved May 3, 2015