--- title: 'Elf (2003)' type: 'film' director: 'Jon Favreau' released: '2003-01-01' runtime_minutes: 97 certification: 'PG' genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Comedy' - 'Family' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/elf-2003' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319343/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Elf (2003) 2003 · PG · 97 min · Fantasy, Comedy, Family · United States ## Synopsis Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father who doesn't know of his existence. James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Asner and Bob Newhart appear in supporting roles. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jon Favreau](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-favreau) - **Screenplay:** [David Berenbaum](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-berenbaum) - **Original Music Composer:** [John Debney](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-debney) - **Producer:** [Shauna Robertson](https://cinepixo.com/people/shauna-robertson) - **Director of Photography:** [Greg Gardiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/greg-gardiner) - **Editor:** [Dan Lebental](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-lebental) ## Cast - [Bob Newhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-newhart) - [Peter Dinklage](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-dinklage) - [Artie Lange](https://cinepixo.com/people/artie-lange) - [Amy Sedaris](https://cinepixo.com/people/amy-sedaris) - [Kyle Gass](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyle-gass) - [Ed Asner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-asner) - [Will Ferrell](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-ferrell) - [Mary Steenburgen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-steenburgen) - [Faizon Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/faizon-love) - [Daniel Tay](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-tay) - [Michael Lerner](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-lerner) - [Andy Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/andy-richter) - [James Caan](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-caan) - [Jon Favreau](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-favreau) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.elfmovie.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/elf-2003 Film facts: Wikidata (Q949879); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.