Nutcrackers is based on a true story in the sense that the kids in Nutcrackers are not actors, and were more or less being themselves on screen. They are the kids of a friend of David Gordon Green’s, and it was their real-life dynamic that inspired Green to make the movie in the first place.

"Nutcrackers" is here. David Gordon Green's latest stars Ben Stiller as Mike Maxwell, a workaholic who has a career in real estate. His life is turned upside down by the death of his sister (and her husband) in a car accident.