Everything Is Illuminated
by Liev Schreiber
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Actor: Boris Leskin, Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Jana Hrabetova, Jonathan Safran FoerDirector: 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
Product features:
- 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
DVD Reviews of Everything Is Illuminated
DVD 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.
DVD Review: Eugene Hutz is Awesome!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides my total infatuation with Eugene Hutz from gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, this movie is really good. I've watched it 3 times already. It's got a very good storyline and good character development. I would recommend it to anybody. Any age and anyone who just likes a good story. Okay now...Eugene Hutz is awesome as Alex. the Ukrainian translator. He is sooooooo cute! Gogol Bordello is awesome too and contribute to the soundtrack as well. Get it! You will enjoy it.DVD Review: Ok, so it's not the book.
Summary: 4 Stars
A delightful film, full of suprising twists and turns. not at all your typical Hollywood production told in a typical way by the usual Hollywood actors. Elijah Wood's character is presumably the protagonist of the story focused on his attempts to discover his Jewish roots and to thank the woman who helped his grandfather escape the Holocast in the Ukraine. Hutz and Leskin are local tour guides hired to help him in his quest. But while everything will eventually be illuminated not everything is so simple and straightforward. In the end, Wood serves more to guide the other two on their voyage. Wood is definitely fun to watch but the show really belongs to the other two and their dog, Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. Not to mention a caste of extras that don't seem to acting so much as going through their own lives. Like life itself, it's full of comic aspects, but capable of turning deadly serious at any given corner, without warning. there is time for both beauty and horror, sometimes simultaneously.
DVD Review: Everything?
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie confused me. I don't read stuff, so I don't really know how much disconnect there may or may not be between the book and film, but I'm not at all sure what the film tries to accomplish.
I think it failed to connect with me mostly because it didn't seem convinced itself about what it seemed convinced that it should convince me of. While the characters were quirky and quite entertaining, the film lost all impetus with me when it finally got to its supposed destination. Whatever motivated the old man's sacrifice seemed entirely glossed over in light of the collector's quest. Forgotten, even. Under the theme of with collecting memories to be remembered, Wood's character makes some odd choices--but the film's are even more curious. Are the scars and demons of wars and massacres really something to remember--something to "illuminate?" The old man sure seemed far more concerned with what should be hidden and shadowed, and punctuated his thoughts quite permanently, if quietly.
So perhaps this film represents a breadcrumb that leads to the book which is probably another breadcrumb on a path to reclaiming some sense of identity or ethnicity or whatever, but, after the first hour or so, as a viewer, I sure felt left out. If I'd paid to watch it instead of renting, I'd be quite agitated. It's not very nice to take the audience's eight bucks and then kick them out halfway through.
DVD Review: loved every minute of this gem of a movie
Summary: 5 Stars
i read the reviews before buying,i loved it and watched it twice to make sure i had'nt missed anything.Having gone through something of the same journey recently some of the places we visited were in the movie a lot of the problem's he had we also had.All in all i loved the movie it made me both happy and sad already knowing what our people went through and what he's people went through in the movie.Dont think twice just buy this gem of a movie.
Description 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.DVD Features:
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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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