Elf

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Fresh from its £17 million UK box office gross and over taking The Grinch which took £16 million at the box office, Entertainment In Video is delighted to announce the DVD and VHS releases of Elf. Combining a heart, a brain, dazzling special effects and a wicked sense of humour, this is a true Christmas classic that can be enjoyed all year round!

Directed by Jon Favreau and starring Will Ferrell (Anchorman, Old School, Saturday Night Live), James Caan (Honeymoon in Vegas, Dick Tracy) and Mary Steenburgen (Back to the Future, Parenthood), Elf will be released to rent and buy from 8th November 2004. And as a special early Christmas present from Entertainment, retail DVD copies will be available as a special box set featuring an enchanting Elf clock - however, this is only available while stocks last.

One Christmas Eve, a long time ago, a small baby at an orphanage crawled into a bag of toys belonging to Santa (Ed Asner) and was carried back to the North Pole. Taken under the wing of a surrogate father (Bob Newhart), Buddy (Will Ferrell) grows to three times the size of everyone around him. Realising that he will never truly fit into the elf world, he decides to head off to New York and track down his birth family.

But when Buddy meets his real father, Walter (James Caan), he is in for a shock. For Walter is not quite the genial parent he expected but a workaholic publisher of children's books with a place on Santa's "naughty" list. Buddy also discovers a new stepmother (Mary Steenburgen) and a ten-year-old half-brother (Daniel Tay) who doesn't believe in Santa.

In fact, it seems to Buddy that everyone has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. And despite finding himself as much an outsider in the Big Apple as back in the North Pole, Buddy takes it upon himself to not only win over his family but to save Christmas for New York and the world.