Elf Page #2

Synopsis: Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
Production: New Line Cinema
  2 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG
Year:
2003
97 min
$173,400,000
Website
14,673 Views


[Devilish laughter] Aah!

[Pop goes the weasel playing]

[Laughter] Ah!

[Sighs]

[Pop goes the weasel playing]

[Laughter]

Hey, foom foom...

I hate to do this to you, but you Think you could

Help me pick up the slack on those etch-a-sketches?

No problem. I appreciate it.

Buddy is killing me.

I already got lum lum and choochoo pulling' doubles.

That was quick thinking yesterday

With that ¡°special talents¡± thing.

Ming Ming:
I feel bad for the guy.

I just hope he doesn't get wise.

Well, if he hasn't figured out He's a human by now,

I don't think he ever will.

[Foom foom:
] If he hasn't figured Out he's a human

By now, I don't think he ever will.

I think they're too small.

[Ming Ming:
] You're just... special.

[Snores]

[Buddy sings deeply]

[Sneakers screech]

[Devilish laughter]

You don't look so good, buddy.

Are you okay?

I'll be okay, I just need a glass of water.

Aah!

Buddy...

Unh! Aah!

[Knock on door]

Buddy, are you okay?

I'm sorry, papa.

I just need some alone time.

Buddy, I... I think we... we have to talk.

Buddy, uh, I think there's something

I... I probably should tell you.

You probably should have found out a long...

A long time ago.

I then proceeded to tell buddy of how his father

Had fallen in love when he was very young

With a beautiful girl named Susan wells,

And how buddy was born

And put up for adoption by his mother,

And how she had later passed away.

I... I told him his father

Had never even known that Buddy was born,

And most importantly,

I told him where his father was...

Uh, in a magical land called new York City.

My dad works there?

Empire state building.

Hey, buddy, wanna pick some snow berries?

Not now, arctic puffin.

Hello, buddy. Oh... hi, Leon.

Why the long face, partner?

It seems I'm... I'm not an elf.

'Course you're not. You're 6'3"

And had a beard since you were 15.

Papa says my real father

Lives in a magical place far away.

I don't know what to do.

At least you have a daddy.

I was just rolled up one day and left out here in the cold.

But the thing is, I've never even left the North Pole.

Buddy, I've been around the world Many times

When I was a young cumulus nimbus cloud.

It's a wonderful place, filled with Wondrous creatures...

Except dogs.

Oh, by the way, don't eat the yellow snow.

Oh, I know that.

All I'm say in' is, this might be The golden opportunity

To find out whom you really are.

So, I hear you're going

On a little journey to the big city.

Yup. Ahh.

I'm kind a nervous.

[Chuckles]

Leon says New York is pretty different.

Oh, don't pay attention to Leon.

He's never been anywhere. He doesn't have any feet.

I've been to New York thousands of times.

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David Berenbaum

David Berenbaum is an American screenwriter whose credits include the films Elf, The Haunted Mansion, Zoom, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Strange Magic. more…

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