The Nutcracker Prince is a 1990 animated romantic fantasy film made by Lacewood Productions and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Paul Schibli and based on the story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann as well as influenced by its ballet adaptation The Nutcracker.
The film centers on a young man named Hans who is transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only break the spell if he slays the Mouse King and wins the heart of a girl named Clara. The film features the voice talents of Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Hans (The Nutcracker), Mae Whitman as Clara, Roscoe Lee Browne as the evil Mouseking, Nigel Hawthorne as Pantaloon, an old soldier, Sandy Duncan as the Mousequeen, Kevin Michael Richardson as Uncle Drosselmeier and Tony Jay as the Opening Narrator. Music from Tchaikovsky's ballet rendition and Alan Menken is used at intervals throughout the film as the main instrumental soundtrack.
The film centers on a young man named Hans who is transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only break the spell if he slays the Mouse King and wins the heart of a girl named Clara. The film features the voice talents of Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Hans (The Nutcracker), Mae Whitman as Clara, Roscoe Lee Browne as the evil Mouseking, Nigel Hawthorne as Pantaloon, an old soldier, Sandy Duncan as the Mousequeen, Kevin Michael Richardson as Uncle Drosselmeier and Tony Jay as the Opening Narrator. Music from Tchaikovsky's ballet rendition and Alan Menken is used at intervals throughout the film as the main instrumental soundtrack.