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I'm going to break the rules a little bit and share four.
In order:
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Misery (1990)
Elf (2003)
The Lego Movie (2015)
Here is my fan theory (possible spoilers):
spoiler
A traumatized and desperate woman is driven nearly to insanity dealing with a rough life in north eastern America. After losing her family life, she retreats to a mountain cabin to live out her days alone and at no risk of ever being taken advantage of again. As a coping mechanism, she develops and unhealthy relationship with written fiction.The writer who escapes moves far away and takes on a new identity working as a publisher of children's books in New York city (no chance of crazies kidnapping you over children's books, right?). He thought he was finished dealing with crazy people until a man claiming to be both his son and a christmas elf are thrust into his life.
Reconnecting with family and assimilating back into society has turned Buddy, who has since dropped that moniker, into a respectable, hard working family man. He wants to give his children the normal childhood he was never allowed to have. Although he still clings to some old habits. After suffering the trauma of having his custom built Lego city crushed by his manager back in Gimbels department store years prior, he is now healing by constructing an elaborately crafted Lego city in the basement of his home. Only this time meticulously cementing each piece into place.
His now wife, knowing his past, is accepting of the hobby. But his own children, with whom he hasn't shared his upbringing, aren't so understanding.
You could work Stranger Than Fiction in there, too. Buddy the Elf IS the character the dad is writing in his children's novel in New York...and his son!
This... somehow... works. Nice work.