Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated
by Liev Schreiber

Everything Is Illuminated
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Actor: Boris Leskin, Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Jana Hrabetova, Jonathan Safran Foer
Director: Liev Schreiber
Brand: WOOD,ELIJAH
Writer: Jonathan Safran Foer
Writer: Liev Schreiber
Producer: David Minkowski
Producer: Kelley Cribben
Producer: Marc Turtletaub
Producer: Matthew Stillman
Producer: Peter Saraf
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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  • Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family's story under absurd circumstances turns into a meaningful journey with a powerful series o

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Movie Review: a tragi-comic jewel of a roadtrip movie
Summary: 5 Stars

Can a movie find hope in the ashes of the Holocaust? Miraculously, this one does, and with a lot less schmaltz than you might imagine possible. How does it do this? By giving us characters so vivid and memorable that their very presence suggests the indomitable spirit of life. By making us laugh, cry, and stare in wonder at sights and sounds which have the ring of truth, even if the film itself is wrought out of the colors of magical hyper-realism.

A great deal of credit of course accrues to the novel. But Liev Schreiber proves here that he understands how film can cut straight to the funny bone-- and to the heart. And he seems to have an almost unerring sense of when to do what.

A dazzling, moving, stirring debut film. The only rub is this: when it was released by Warner Independent, nobody saw it. Something is clearly wrong with a) how films are being distributed in America b) the American public, or (and most likely) c) both.

Summary of Everything Is Illuminated

Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family's story under absurd circumstances turns into a meaningful journey with a powerful series of revelations -- the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the meaning of friendship.

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Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated stars Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) as Jonathan Safran Foer, a young Jewish man who wants to learn how his grandfather escaped from the Nazi incursions into Russia. From the U.S., he hires the hip-hop loving Alex (Eugene Hutz, leader of the gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello) and his surly grandfather (Boris Leskin, Men in Black) as tour guides--only to discover, when he arrives in Odessa, that they are perhaps less than dependable. Thus begins a curious, almost metaphysical road trip that carries Foer into the past of his grandfather's village and the present of his own compulsive habits. Adapted and directed by Liev Schreiber (best known as an actor in The Daytrippers and The Manchurian Candidate), Everything is Illuminated buckles a little under its literary weight--what seems deft and resonant in the middle of several hundred pages can feel forced and ove! rstated in a two-hour movie--but it's also full of delightful dialogue, vivid characters, and oddball yet affecting scenes. Wood is his usual charming and neurotic self, but Hutz steals the show with the help of his wonderfully fractured English and his soulful eyes. --Bret Fetzer

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