Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The

When a confident, but distraught teenager (Mackenzie Foy), who lives with her widowed father (Matthew Macfadyen) and two siblings, attends an elaborate Christmas Eve party at the mansion of her wealthy godfather (Morgan Freeman) in this colorful, entertaining, family-friendly, 3D, star-studded (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, Eugenio Derbez, Miranda Hart, Ellie Bomber, and Jack Whitehall), 110-minute fantasy film dominated by original Tchaikovsky's music and gorgeous costumes, sets, and makeup and based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and Marius Petipa's The Nutcracker Ballet, searches for the key to a beautiful, mysterious egg that was a gift from her mother (Anna Madaley) and ends up in a magical, parallel world where a nutcracker soldier (Jayden Fowora-Knight) tries to protect her while she leaves the three realms of sweets, snowflakes, and flowers to enter the creepy, dangerous fourth realm and eventually to restore peace to the kingdom.
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