Nutcracker (2016)

Nutcracker is a fresh twist on a cautionary tale Shelly is a 17year old AfricanAmerican girl on the cusp of womanhood The realities of wanting to be desired wanting to be validated and wanting to fit in pull her down to a place of desperation Her vivid imagination often finds her in awkward situations but over the course of the story it stretches to the place where shes willing to put herself in not just a vulnerable but downright lifethreatening situation