![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For his directorial debut, actor Liev Schreiber attempts to streamline Foer’s tome into more mainstream-accessible form, focusing his story on Jonathan’s (Elijah Wood) odyssey through the Ukraine with a hip-hop-obsessed, broken English-spewing guide named Alex (Eugene Hutz), Alex’s crotchety grandfather also named Alex (Boris Leskin), and grandpa’s “seeing eye bitch” Sammy Davis Jr. Jonathan Safran Foer’s faux-memoir Everything Is Illuminated was a polarizing piece of metafictional gimmickry, a novel equal parts humorous (when recounting semi-fictional protagonist Foer’s trip to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Holocaust) and horrendous (when indulging in Jonathan’s novel-within-the-novel about the magic-realism tomfoolery in a 1790s Ukrainian shtetl). ![]()
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