NutcrackersTrailer:Ben Stiller Looks After Wild Orphaned Nephews in Christmas Comedy (Exclusive)
Mar. 15, 2025Ben Stillergets in over his head inNutcrackers.
PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer for the new Christmas comedy, which marks Stiller’s first leading movie role in seven years.
In the film, Stiller, 58, plays Mike, a “strait-laced and work obsessed” man who, per a synopsis, is “suddenly thrust into being a caregiver” for his four “rambunctious” nephews in rural Ohio after they are orphaned.
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Ben Stiller (L) inNutcrackers(2024).Courtesy Nutcracker Productions LLC/Hulu.
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Nutcrackerscomes from director David Gordon Green, who previously directed the recentHalloweentrilogy, 2008’sPineapple Expressand 2023’sThe Exorcist: Believer.
“I wanted to make a movie without viciousness or cynicism or expectation,” Green, 49, said in a statement shared with press. “It was a production experience that evolved with the sunrise and sunset of the farm and the ideas and attitudes of our kids. The effort was to capture the heart and joy of making a movie among people that we love. It was a film experience that felt like a family as we laughed and cried and faced the unknown adventure together.”
Nutcrackers poster.Courtesy of Hulu
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In the trailer (set to a background track of selections from Tchaikovsky’sThe Nutcracker, of course) Michael is shown getting into a series of misadventures with the kids that seem to eventually bring them all closer together.
“You know, if you love somebody and they love you, that love doesn’t go away. It stays with you,” Michael says near the end of the trailer.
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Ben Stiller (L) inNutcrackers(2024).Courtesy Nutcracker Productions LLC/Hulu
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Stiller spoke withVarietyin September about his return to acting after having focused more on directing, telling the outlet, “I never thought I’d take this much time away from acting."
“It wasn’t intentional; it was just how things evolved," said theSeverancedirector and executive producer, who also helmed 2019’s limited seriesEscape at Dannemora. (His last major screen role was in 2017’sBrad’s Status.)
Nutcrackersis on Hulu Nov. 29.
source: people.com
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