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Everything is Illuminated (2005)

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Release Date: September 16, 2005 (LA/NY)
On DVD: March 21, 2006
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Liev Schreiber
Writer: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Official site: wip.warnerbros.com/everythingisilluminated
Running Time: 100 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for disturbing images/violence, sexual content and language.

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...

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Raymond Shaw... er, Lieb Schreiber... has been freed from brainwashing... er, acting... and has directed his first motion picture - "Everything is Illuminated." Haven't heard of it? Well, you should have. Full movie review »

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