On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll ... An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has ...

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse ...