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This seemed like the kind of small quirky film that I enjoy so when TiVo grabed it for me a second time I watched. Sadly, this is a bad small quirky film so I hit delete after about 30 minutes. The 2005 movie is the first feature written and directed by actor Liev Schreiber, from Jonathan Safran Foer’s critically acclaimed novel, and he clearly needed a bit more mentoring from his producers.
Everything is Illuminated stars Elijah Wood as a strange little Jewish American man (named Jonathan Safran Foer, though this is post-modern fiction and not autobiographical as far as I know) who travels to the Ukraine after his beloved grandmother’s death to find out about the woman who saved her from the Nazi muderers during World War II and Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin as a strange grandson/grandfather pair of Ukrainian tour guides who specialize in showing around relatives of dead Jews.
not recommended
