Every Christmas season starting when I was 5, my sister and I had a go-to movie: “Barbie in the Nutcracker. We’d pop in the VHS tape and watch Barbie as Clara dance the night away with the ...

Diane Eskenazi and Harold Harris' 1999 direct-to-video holiday special features Jim Belushi, Phyllis Diller, and more. IndieWire After Dark.

More than two decades before Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster, the Mattel doll appeared in this charming animated adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Christmas ballet.

Yocum’s Nutcracker Prince gave an animated account of the battle, especially in his mime of the Mouse King; Viktorina Kapitonova’s regal Sugar Plum Fairy was a gracious mentor to Oga’s Clara.

In short, to paraphrase the famous Samuel Johnson line about London, if you are tired of “The Nutcracker,” you might be tired of Christmas itself.