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Everything Is Illuminated (2005) Movie vs Book
Film · 2005 · Directed by Liev Schreiber · Starring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz, Boris Leskin
Everything Is Illuminated (2005) Movie: Cast and Details
A young American travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather.
Book vs Movie: How Close Is It?
Loosely based on the bookIt keeps the road trip and the search but leaves out much of the book's layered storytelling.
Read or watch first?
Read the book for the voices and the form. The film is more straightforward.
What the book gives you
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A bold, playful debut that turns very sad. It was adapted into a 2005 film.
Who will like it: Readers who like inventive literary debuts.