Smiling’s my favorite! Will Ferrell drew viewers in as the iconic Buddy the Elf in 2003’s Elf — and fans still can’t get enough of the silly holiday film nearly two decades later.In the Christmas movie, Buddy goes to New York City in hopes of finding his biological father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan), after learning that he is a human and not an elf as he’d always thought.
Before going to the Big Apple, Buddy was raised at the North Pole by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) and never questioned why he was bigger than all of his elf friends.Buddy’s arrival in New York throws Walter and his wife, Emily (Mary Steenburgen), and their son, Michael (Daniel Tay) for a loop since Walter was unaware his college sweetheart had a child after they split.
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