TY - ADVS AU - Berg,Jon AU - Komarnicki,Todd AU - Robertson,Shauna AU - Berenbaum,David AU - Favreau,Jon AU - Ferrell,Will AU - Caan,James AU - Deschanel,Zooey AU - Steenburgen,Mary AU - Tay,Daniel AU - Asner,Edward AU - Newhart,Bob ED - New Line Cinema Corporation, ED - Guy Walks Into a Bar (Firm), ED - New Line Home Entertainment (Firm), ED - Warner Home Video (Firm), TI - Elf T2 - Infinifilm SN - 0780647742 AV - PN1997.2 .E44 2004 U1 - 791.43/72 23 PY - 2004///] CY - [Burbank, California] PB - New Line Home Entertainment, Distributed by Warner Home Video KW - Elves KW - Drama KW - Santa Claus KW - Fathers and sons KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Department stores KW - Employees KW - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) KW - Feature films KW - gsafd KW - Comedy films KW - Fantasy films KW - Adventure films KW - Christmas films KW - lcgft KW - Fiction films KW - Action and adventure films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2003; Special features: Beyond the Movie features: "Kids on Christmas" featurette; "Deck the hall" featurette; "Santa mania" featurette; "Christmas in Tinseltown" featurette; fact track ; All-Access Pass features: Commentaries by Will Ferrell and director Jon Favreau; deleted/alternate scenes; behind the scenes features including - Tag along with Will Ferrell, Film school for kids, How they made the North Pole, Lights, camera, puffin!, That's a wrap; music from Elf ; Fun 'N' Games: Elf karaoke; "Elf: a short story of a tall tale" read-along; Buddy's adventure game includes - The race down Mt. Icing, Elf in the city, Snowball fight, Fix Santa's sleigh; secret elevator o' fun ; DVD-ROM content: Make your own storybook; be an Elf photo activity; script-to-screen; image gallery; printable activities; Director of photography, Greg Gardiner ; editor, Dan Lebental ; music, John Debney ; costume designer, Laura Jean Shannon ; production designer, Rusty Smith ; visual effects supervisor, Joe Bauer; Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Daniel Tay, Edward Asner, Bob Newhart; MPAA rating: PG; some mild rude humor and language N2 - A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special." When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. At first his father rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But all the while, things are looking bad for Santa Claus. When Santa crashes his sleigh in Central Park, it's Buddy's moment to shine ER -