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One Christmas Eve a long time ago, a baby crawled into Santa's bag of toys... Raised as an elf, Buddy (Will Ferrell) grows into an adult three times larger than the biggest elf--and realizes that he will never truly fit in at the North Pole. This holiday season, Buddy goes looking for his true place in the world--in New York City. Buddy finds his workaholic father (James Caan)--who's on Santa's "naughty" list, a new mother (Mary Steenburgen) and a 10-year-old brother who doesn't believe in Santa Claus or elves. Here, now, Buddy discovers his destiny--to save Christmas for New York and the world!

2003 · 1h 37m
Director Jon Favreau

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One Christmas Eve a long time ago, a baby crawled into Santa's bag of toys... Raised as an elf, Buddy (Will Ferrell) grows into an adult three times larger than the biggest elf--and realizes that he will never truly fit in at the North Pole. This holiday season, Buddy goes looking for his true place in the world--in New York City. Buddy finds his workaholic father (James Caan)--who's on Santa's "naughty" list, a new mother (Mary Steenburgen) and a 10-year-old brother who doesn't believe in Santa Claus or elves. Here, now, Buddy discovers his destiny--to save Christmas for New York and the world!

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.1
Reviews 201
Fresh 173
Rotten 28

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Studio
Warner Bros.
Released
2003
Run Time
1 hr 37 min
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United States
© " 2003 New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."

Languages

Original Audio
English, French
Audio

English (United States) (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) (SDH), Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Indonesian , Japanese (Japan) , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian

Accessibility

Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.