Film pick: Elf
Every year, we need a film that serves as a complement
to (or an antidote for) It's a
Wonderful Life and A
Christmas Carol. This year, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is obliging with
Jon Favreau's
Elf (2003),
in which, with demented and innocent puerility, Will Ferrell plays a human
child raised among Santa's helpers in the North Pole who goes in search of his
real father. It's very funny, and sometimes too sweet, but a good excuse to see
James Caan on screen. The Coolidge is at 290 Harvard St, Brookline
| December 10-11 @ midnight | $9 | 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org.