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TIFF Opening Night Kicks Off With Non-Traditional Family Holiday Comedy ‘Nutcrackers’; Ben Stiller & David Gordon Green Rally Big-Screen Comedies
2023 TIFF kicked off with a live action holiday family film, which is not traditional with the Ben Stiller pic 'Nutcrackers'
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 2024 edition on a slightly different note: With a live-action holiday family comedy, Nutcrackers, starring Ben Stiller in his first feature starring role in seven years. The movie, directed by David Gordon Green and written by Leland Douglas, follows Stiller as a Chicago real estate exec who must oversee his four wild, rambunctious nephews after their parents tragically die on their Ohio farm. Last year, TIFF did go the family route on night one with Hayao Miyazaki’s North American premiere of The Boy and the Heron which went on to win the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.
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