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Nutcrackers
The holidays can drive you nuts.
Just as Mike is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home.
  • Released on 09/05/2024 (Movie)
  • 5.6 out of 10 (24 votes on TMDB)
  • Comedy / Drama
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Ben Stiller

Character's name: "Mike Maxwell"
Birthday: 11/30/1965
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of the comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Stiller was a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received various awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards, a Britannia Award and a Teen Choice Award. While beginning his acting career, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries and was offered a variety sketch comedy series titled The Ben Stiller Show, which he produced and hosted for its 13-episode run. The series ran on MTV from 1990 to 1992, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Program. He then appeared on shows such as Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Arrested Development. Having previously acted in television, he began acting in films. He made his directorial debut with Reality Bites and continued directing films and often starring in them, such as with The Cable Guy (1996), Zoolander (2001), Tropic Thunder (2008), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). During this time he also starred in a string of successful studio comedies including There’s Something About Mary (1998), Along Came Polly (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and Tower Heist (2011). Stiller is also widely known for multiple franchise films such as the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), the Madagascar franchise (2005–2012), and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014). He is known for his performances in independent films such as David O. Russell’s Flirting with Disaster (1996), Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Noah Baumbach’s’ Greenberg (2010), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). In 2018 he directed the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora earning himself a Directors Guild of America Award and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. In 2022 he served as a director and executive producer on the Apple TV+ series Severance earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.

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Linda Cardellini

Character's name: "Gretchen Rice"
Birthday: 06/25/1975
Birthplace: Redwood City, California, USA
Biography:
Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is an American actress. In television, she is known for her leading roles in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), the medical drama ER (2003–09), the drama thriller Bloodline (2015–17), and the tragicomedy Dead to Me (2019–present), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also guest starred in the period drama Mad Men (2013–15), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Her voice work includes the animated series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–13), Regular Show (2012–15), Gravity Falls (2012–16), and Sanjay and Craig (2013–16). In film, Cardellini is best known for her portrayal of Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), and her supporting roles in Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Grandma’s Boy (2006), Kill the Irishman (2011), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The Founder (2016), Green Book, A Simple Favor (both 2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). She also starred in the drama Return (2011), earning an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination, the comedies Daddy's Home (2015) and Daddy's Home 2 (2017), and the horror film The Curse of La Llorona (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Cardellini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Homer Janson

Character's name: "Justice Kicklighter"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Ulysses Janson

Character's name: "Junior Kicklighter"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Arlo Janson

Character's name: "Simon Kicklighter"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Atlas Janson

Character's name: "Samuel Kicklighter"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Toby Huss

Character's name: "Al Wilmington"
Birthday: 12/09/1966
Birthplace: Marshalltown, Iowa, U.S.
Biography:
Toby Edward Huss (born December 9, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Artie, the Strongest Man in the World on the cult hit Nickelodeon TV series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, for his voice-over work on the long running animated series King of the Hill, and for his role as Felix 'Stumpy' Dreifuss on HBO's Carnivàle. Huss was born in Marshalltown, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa where he participated in No Shame Theatre before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He has appeared in over 35 movies and television series. Notable roles include the voices of Cotton Hill and Kahn Souphanousinphone on King of the Hill and "The Wiz", a boyfriend of Elaine Benes in "The Junk Mail" episode of Seinfeld. Known for his parodies of Frank Sinatra, which were featured in the films Vegas Vacation and Down Periscope, Huss has created a Sinatra-inspired character named Rudy Casoni. In the early 1990s he appeared in network promos for MTV, playing odd characters, including a crooner known at the time as Ol' Two Eyes (the predecessor to Rudy Casoni) who sang lounge-singer versions of Dr. Dre's "Dre Day," Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Brain," Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," and Onyx's hit "Slam"; a James Bond-like spy named Cobalt; a leather fetishist with an abnormal affection for goats; a flannel-wearing doofus; and an angry redneck the Reverend Tex Stoveheadbottom, who delivered fast-talking and descriptively detailed non-sequitir tirades that usually included the phrase, "Go to Hell!" Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Huss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Maren Heisler

Character's name: "Mia"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Edi Patterson

Character's name: "Rose"
Birthday: 09/19/1974
Birthplace: Texas City, Texas, USA
Biography:
Edi grew up in Texas and lives in Los Angeles. She is a Groundlings Main Company member, and regularly performs there in improv and sketch comedy shows. She is also a member of improvisational theatre company Impro Theatre, which performs full-length, completely improvised plays.

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Tim Heidecker

Character's name: "Deputy Cox"
Birthday: 02/03/1976
Birthplace: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography:
Timothy Richard Heidecker (born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. Along with Eric Wareheim, he is a member of the comedy duo Tim & Eric. He has also appeared in films, including Bridesmaids (2011), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), The Comedy (2012), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Us (2019). He currently co-hosts the parodic film review web series On Cinema and stars in the comedy series Decker alongside Gregg Turkington and hosts a weekly call-in show, Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker, with DJ Douggpound and Vic Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Heidecker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ari Graynor

Character's name: "Carol (voice)"
Birthday: 04/27/1983
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography:
Ariel 'Ari' Geltman Graynor (born April 27, 1983) is an American actress.

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Ashley Rae Spillers

Character's name: "Barbara (voice)"
Birthday: 08/13/1986
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA

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Lucy Zukaitis

Character's name: "Julia"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Bryant Carroll

Character's name: "Security Guard"
Birthday: 12/04/2024

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Louis Heisler

Character's name: "Anthony Biniak"
Birthday: 12/04/2024


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David Gordon Green
Director

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Leland Douglas
Writer

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Nate Meyer
Producer

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Ben Stiller
Producer

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Rob Paris
Producer

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Mike Witherill
Producer

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John Lesher
Producer

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Kelley Sims
Executive Producer

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Atilla Salih Yücer
Executive Producer

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