But he wasn't." Linda Cardellini plays a foster-care social worker whose infectious love for her job affects curmudgeonly Michael (Ben Stiller) in the Hulu holiday movie "Nutcrackers." Stiller was ...

Ben Stiller ... this sweet movie that was really funny and reminded me of movies that I watched when I was younger. It just was so not cynical, and so heartwarming and so fun," Stiller explained.

"Yeah, so doing this movie was the opposite of that − it was do work with children as well as animals," says Ben Stiller of his new feel-good holiday movie, "Nutcrackers" (streaming Friday on Hulu).