Nutcracker and the Mouse King

On Christmas Eve, a wooden nutcracker comes to life-and leads his toy army into battle against a seven-headed mouse king.E. T. A. Hoffmann's original 1816 tale is stranger, darker, and far more wonderful than the ballet it inspired. Young Marie receives an odd nutcracker doll as a Christmas gift, and that night witnesses him rally the toys and gingerbread soldiers against an invading horde of mice...