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Nutcracker

  • 1982
  • R
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
123
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Nutcracker (1982)
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A Russian ballet dancer defects from the U.S.S.R., emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Dame Joan Collins).A Russian ballet dancer defects from the U.S.S.R., emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Dame Joan Collins).A Russian ballet dancer defects from the U.S.S.R., emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Dame Joan Collins).

  • Director
    • Anwar Kawadri
  • Writers
    • Raymond Christodoulou
    • Max Roman
    • Yvonne Roman
  • Stars
    • Joan Collins
    • Carol White
    • Paul Nicholas
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.3/10
    123
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Anwar Kawadri
    • Writers
      • Raymond Christodoulou
      • Max Roman
      • Yvonne Roman
    • Stars
      • Joan Collins
      • Carol White
      • Paul Nicholas
    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Joan Collins and Paul Nicholas in Nutcracker (1982)
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    Joan Collins
    Joan Collins
    • Mme. Laura Carrere
    Carol White
    Carol White
    • Margaux Lasselle
    Paul Nicholas
    Paul Nicholas
    • Mike McCann
    Finola Hughes
    Finola Hughes
    • Nadia Gargarin
    William Franklyn
    William Franklyn
    • Sir Arthur Cartwright
    Leslie Ash
    Leslie Ash
    • Sharon
    Murray Melvin
    Murray Melvin
    • Leopold
    Vernon Dobtcheff
    Vernon Dobtcheff
    • Markovitch
    Geraldine Gardner
    Geraldine Gardner
    • Markova
    Cherry Gillespie
    • Mireille
    Jane Wellman
    • Grace
    Ed Bishop
    Ed Bishop
    • Sam Dozier
    Jo Warne
    Jo Warne
    • Madame Olga
    Martin Burrows
    • Tom
    Fran Fullenwider
    • Vi
    Anna Bergman
    Anna Bergman
    • Tashi
    Nicola Austin
    • Sylvie
    Olivier Pierre
    • Alex Lasalle
    • Director
      • Anwar Kawadri
    • Writers
      • Raymond Christodoulou
      • Max Roman
      • Yvonne Roman
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    • Trivia
      Dame Joan Collins now refers to this movie as "a horrible mistake".
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Golden Gong (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      Time To Love You
      Written by Simon Park

      Performed by Paul Nicholas

    User reviews3

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    8/10
    101 sticky-sweet minutes of pure cinematic candy floss!
    I remain a total NUT for camp as Christmas Joan Collins flicks! Not often hailed by cult movie fanatics, Anwar Kawadri's luxuriously limber, fabulously fleet-footed, defecting ballet dancer melodrama 'Nutcracker' (1982) is not so much cold war angst, but deliciously cold cream cheese! This amusingly ribald lark has handsome Paul Nicholas as randy, opportunistic, story-breaking shutterbug Mike McCann and buxom Carol White as his equally libidinous, delightfully outspoken paramour Margaux Lasselle, both becoming erotically entwined in this adorably chipper, empty-headed dance flick, generously bejewelled with some beguilingly bawdy dialogue! I find this type of unrepentantly smutty/glitzy/chintzy 80s gubbinz irresistible, so why not take a sneaky pecan at the glisteringly glam/ham Joan Collins at her haughtily duplicitous, ostentatiously coutured, languorously lingeried, silkily snide best!!!

    And lest we forget, the bizarrely underappreciated 'Nutcracker' generously introduces us to the entrancingly luscious Finola 'Staying Alive' Hughes as the impossibly limber 'Nadia' the boldly defecting Russian ballerina. While not without missteps, Kawadri's burnished 'Nutcracker' remains a heady, garishly glossy, lycra-lavish, blithely bed-hopping, perkily pirouetting 80s schlock classic! With most of the physical activities are of a more primal 'horizontal' variety, dance classists may want to look elsewhere, but ardent trash aficionados might well appreciate Nutcracker's hedonistic, gallopingly gaudy, innuendo-laden text and high-gloss disco-degenerated aesthetic! 'Nutcracker' boasts a marvellous supporting cast, including beloved rent-a-ruskie Vernon Dobtcheff, waspish Murray Melvin, and the urbane William Franklyn being deliciously sinister as the unrepentantly corrupt uncivil servant Sir Arthur Cartwright, plus a frothy, pop-tastic theme by Paul Nicholas and you have 101 sticky-sweet minutes of pure cinematic candy floss, and while the memories may not linger, it certainly tasted uncommonly yummy at the time!
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 1984 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Nutcracker Sweet
    • Filming locations
      • London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Jershaw
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,597
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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