Everything is Illuminated
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Liev Schreiber
Screenwriter: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin
Synopsis:
Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran
Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of
a young American Jewish 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. The journey begins as a comic nightmare--with
an eccentric trio of paid "expert" guides sorely lacking
in expertise: a cranky grandfather who insists on bringing his
unruly seeing-eye dog to help him drive, and his over-enthusiastic
grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for retro
American pop culture, and inability to shut up threaten to make
the worst of every situation. But what starts out as the tour
from hell turns into a surprisingly meaningful journey--with an
unexpected and powerful series of revelations that will indelibly
change all of their lives.
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