‘Nutcrackers’ Director David Gordon Green On Applying Blumhouse Model To Comedy, “Disservice” Modern Multiplexes Are Doing To Moviegoers
deadline.comNot every year brings a new holiday classic, but this Friday, David Gordon Green slips one under the tree. Snapped up by Hulu following its premiere at TIFF, the film is Nutcrackers, a little dramedy Green shot out on a small-town Ohio farm late last year, with an interim agreement in hand.
Ben Stiller stars as Mike, a workaholic who heads out to the Buckeye State to look after his recently orphaned nephews, developing a closer bond with the rowdy bunch than he had anticipated.
Green’s way into the project was unconventional — engineering a film around the charismatic young sons of a close film school friend.
After years steeping himself in horror, between an Exorcist film and a Halloween trilogy, the project marked a return to his humanist roots, as well as his first feature comedy in almost a decade.
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