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.

ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Nutcrackers stars Ben Stiller and real-life brothers Homer and Arlo Janson. The trio discussed filming at the Janson family’s actual farmhouse, what drew them to the project,

Ben Stiller returns from relative dormancy (he hasn’t starred in a movie in seven years!) to headline Nutcrackers (now streaming on Hulu), a holiday comedy in which he’s absolutely upstaged by four young boys.