Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features: Beyond the Movie features: "Kids on Christmas" featurette; "Deck the hall" featurette; "Santa mania" featurette; "Christmas in Tinseltown" featurette; fact track ; All-Access Pass features: Commentaries by Will Ferrell and director Jon Favreau; deleted/alternate scenes; behind the scenes features including - Tag along with Will Ferrell, Film school for kids, How they made the North Pole, Lights, camera, puffin!, That's a wrap; music from Elf ; Fun 'N' Games: Elf karaoke; "Elf: a short story of a tall tale" read-along; Buddy's adventure game includes - The race down Mt. Icing, Elf in the city, Snowball fight, Fix Santa's sleigh; secret elevator o' fun ; DVD-ROM content: Make your own storybook; be an Elf photo activity; script-to-screen; image gallery; printable activities.

Director of photography, Greg Gardiner ; editor, Dan Lebental ; music, John Debney ; costume designer, Laura Jean Shannon ; production designer, Rusty Smith ; visual effects supervisor, Joe Bauer.

Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Daniel Tay, Edward Asner, Bob Newhart.

A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special." When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. At first his father rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But all the while, things are looking bad for Santa Claus. When Santa crashes his sleigh in Central Park, it's Buddy's moment to shine.

MPAA rating: PG; some mild rude humor and language.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; English Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo surround.

DVD-ROM features: PC running Microsoft Windows 98SE or higher, InterActual player installed (included on disc), Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Macromedia Flash 6.0 and an Internet connection, DVD-ROM drive, and a software or hardware DVD player. DVD System requirements for This DVD will not work in a CD-ROM drive and the DVD-ROM features are not available on Apple Macintosh.

English (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby 2.0) dialogue; closed-captioned.