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Name: Everything is Illuminated
Released: 2005-9-16
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret

Everything is Illuminated

PG-13
1h 46m
2005

66%

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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 of revelations -- the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the meaning of friendship.

Director:

Liev Schreiber

Producer:

Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Matthew Stillman

Writer:

Liev Schreiber

Cast:

Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

66%

Critics Consensus: Although it excises much from its famously dense source material, Everything is Illuminated is a quirky, ambitious debut film from Liev Schreiber.

Reviews

Creative Loafing

Felicia Feaster

Rather than aiming to please, the film expects a certain patience on the viewer's part as it ambles and slowly shifts from an often forced quirkiness to a bone-deep melancholy. That change of tack proves worth waiting for.

The lamentable influence of Dave Eggers' oh-so-precious post modern literary devices from "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius" (2000) are glued all over a bullet proof piece of magical realism...

What begins in quirks and idiosyncrasy moves into a dark place where profound sadness and profound closure co-exist side by side.

while the film, concerned as it is with the brotherhood of man, is undoubtedly humanist in its philosophy, there are enough shades of grey to cast long shadows over its apparently sunny outlook.

June 21, 2017

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Christianity Today

Ron Reed

It is a film that doesn't want us to forget. Or perhaps it is a film that wants a new generation to remember a past which profoundly shapes its present.

June 21, 2017