The Nutcracker (George Balanchine's The Nutcracker)

The Nutcracker is the main protagonist of the 1993 musical film George Balanchine's The Nutcracker and a love interest of Marie Stahlbaum.
He was portrayed by Macaulay Culkin, who played another character named "Drosselmeier's Nephew" at the beginning of the film, and also portrayed Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone franchise, Thomas J. Sennett in My Girl, Richard Tyler in The Pagemaster, and Richie Rich in the 1994 film of the same name.
==Personality==
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==Biography==
The Nutcracker was first introduced as a doll, when Herr Drosselmeier and his nephew present the object to a girl named Marie during a Christmas party. Marie appreciates the gift, and Drosselmeier's nephew hands out nuts for several children in the party to crack using the Nutcracker. Unfortunately, Marie's brother Fritz snatches the object from her and accidentally breaks it while playing. Drosselmeier shows the heartbroken Marie a trick by using a ribbon to magically fix the doll.
After everyone goes to bed, Marie wakes up to play with the Nutcracker, but then starts dreaming as a horde of mice arrives and the Nutcracker was brought to life by the ghost of Drosselmeier. The Nutcracker leads an army of toy soldiers to battle the mice. All of a sudden, the three-headed Mouse King appears, and he and Nutcracker duel in a sword fight. Just as the Mouse King has the Nutcracker cornered, Marie intervenes and throws her slipper at him, giving the Nutcracker more time to stab the three-headed rodent. The dolls applaud the Nutcracker, as he takes the Mouse King's crown and the other mice sadly pick up their dead ruler's body to carry it away.
The Nutcracker and Marie are transported to a snowy forest with Christmas trees, and he transforms into a human prince due to his spell being broken. Then he puts the crown on Marie's head, making her his princess, and they fall in love. After that, they travel to the Land of Sweets and meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and Mother Ginger. They watch several dancers perform in the party, until Marie and the prince become the last ones to dance as all the subjects cheer on.
==Trivia==
*In the credits, he was credited as "Drosselmeier's Nephew/Nutcracker Prince".
*The character's actor, Macaulay Culkin, had also performed in ballets numerous times when he was a child.
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