What is Elf (movie)?
{{refimprove|date=July 2015}} {{italictitle}} '''''Elf''''' is an [[United States|American]] 2003 [[Christmas]] [[comedy]] movie, directed by [[Jon Favreau]]. It stars [[Will Ferrell]], [[James Caan]], [[Bob Newhart]], [[Zooey Deschanel]], and [[Ed Asner]] with [[Leon Redbone]]. Ferrell plays a human named '''Buddy''' who is raised by elves in the [[North Pole]]. He lives the way the elves do and helps in [[Santa Claus|Santa's]] workshop. He travels to [[New York City]] to find his father. He is used to how elves live, which is very different from how humans live, with New York being a perfectly opposite way of living compared to the North Pole. The movie was released to positive reviews on November 7, 2003 by [[Warner Bros.]] The film inspired the 2010 [[Broadway]] musical ''[[Elf: The Musical]]'' and [[NBC]]'s 2014 [[stop-motion]] animated television special ''[[Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas]]''. {{Jon Favreau}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Elf (movie)}} [[Category:2003 comedy movies]] [[Category:American comedy movies]] [[Category:Christmas movies]] [[Category:Movies composed by John Debney]] [[Category:Movies directed by Jon Favreau]] [[Category:Movies set in New York City]] [[Category:New Line Cinema movies]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1970s]] [[Category:Movies set in the 2000s]] [[Category:Movies about elves]] [[Category:Movies about dysfunctional families]] [[Category:Movies set in Canada]] {{movie-stub}}