“Nutcrackers” is here.
David Gordon Green’s latest stars Ben Stiller as Mike Maxwell, a workaholic who has a career in real estate. His life is turned upside down by the death of his sister (and her husband) in a car accident. This is the “Halloween” and “The Exorcist: Believer” director’s first non-horror movie since 2017 and Stiller’s first starring role since the same year. (In the years since Stiller has focused on directing on projects like Apple TV+’s incredible “Severance.”)
The movie premiered as the opening night film at the Toronto International Film Festival. A few days later it was picked up, in a lucrative deal, by Disney for a holiday premiere on the studio’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform Hulu.