Elf

Elf (2003) is Jon Favreau's Christmas comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a grown man who spent his whole life believing he was one of Santa's elves at the North Pole.

As a baby, Buddy crawled into Santa's gift sack and was raised among toy-makers. There's just one snag: he towers over every real elf and clearly doesn't fit. Once he learns the truth, Buddy pulls on his green suit and pointed hat and heads to Manhattan to find his birth father — a cynical children's-book publisher (James Caan) with no time for holiday cheer. Along the way he falls for a department-store clerk (Zooey Deschanel) and tries to remind a jaded city what Christmas feels like.

Bob Newhart, Ed Asner and Peter Dinklage round out the cast. The film has become a fixture of December schedules, and Buddy's wide-eyed love of syrup-on-spaghetti and escalators turned into endlessly quoted gags. Stream Elf (2003) online on iFILM.