Elf details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Movie Details:
- Director: Jon Favreau
- Produced By: Mosaic Media Group, Guy Walks into a Bar Productions, Gold/Miller Productions
- Year: 2003
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild rude humor and language)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy, Children's/Family
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 2003 11 07 (USA)
- Key Cast: Will Ferrell, Ed Asner, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, Daniel Tay, Faizon Love, Full Credits
For his sophomore stab at directing, actor/writer/director Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made), took on this holiday comedy starring Saturday Night Live-alum Will Ferrell. Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus (Edward Asner). When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he's not a real elf, he decides to head back to his place of birth, New York City, in search of his biological family. Elf also stars James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel, and Bob Newhart. by Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- adoption
- Christmas
- department-store
- elf
- holiday
- Santa
- Christmas-spirit
- publishing-house
Themes:
- Fathers and Sons
- Adoption
- Arrested Adolescence
- Discovering One's Heritage
- Fish Out of Water
- Saintly Fools
