Elf

2003

Jon Favreau's holiday comedy stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised at the North Pole by Santa's elves who travels to New York City to find the father who never knew he existed. James Caan plays the cynical publishing executive Walter Hobbs, Zooey Deschanel is the department-store elf Buddy falls for, and Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, and Mary Steenburgen co-star. Made for about 33 million dollars, it earned more than 220 million and has become a fixture of Christmas television, later spawning a Broadway musical.