The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a 2018 English-language Adventure Family movie written by Tom Mccarthy and Ashleigh Powell. The movie is directed by Joe Johnston, Lasse Hallstrom and Lasse Hallstr M and produced by Mark Gordon and Larry Franco under the banner of Walt Disney Pictures in collaboration with The Mark Gordon Company. All Clara wants is a key - a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key-which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers, and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. The nutcracker and the four realms features Keira Knightley in the title role along with an ensemble cast including Mackenzie Foy, Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland and Helen Mirren. The motion picture is based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann The Nutcracker by Marius Petipa. The music was composed by James Newton Howard. Cinematography was done by Linus Sandgren and editing by Stuart Levy. The film has a running time of 99 minutes. It was released on 1st November 2018 in English and French languages. The Film was successful at box office. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was made on a budget of $120 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $173 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.