Everything Is Illuminated Page #2

Synopsis: Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer is a collector of his family's memorabilia, although most of the items, some which he takes without asking, would not be considered keepsakes by the average person. He places most of those items in individual Ziploc bags, and hangs them on his keepsake wall under the photograph of the person to who it is most associated. He has this compulsion in an effort to remember. He is able to tie a photograph that he receives from his grandmother, Sabine Foer, on her deathbed - it of his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the war in the Ukraine, and a young woman he will learn is named Augustine - back to a pendant he stole from his grandfather on his deathbed in 1989, the pendant of a glass encased grasshopper. Learning that Augustine somehow saved his grandfather's life leads to Jonathan going on a quest to find out the story at its source where the photograph was taken, in a now non-existent and probably largely forgotten town called Trachimbrod that
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Liev Schreiber
Production: Warner Independent Pictures
  7 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
PG-13
Year:
2005
106 min
$1,644,300
Website
866 Views


We should go to Lutsk.

Yes?

Are you sure he's okay?

-Grandfather!

-Shut up!

l'm blind, not deaf.

l heard you the first time!

What does he say?

He says, ''Okey-dokey, we will go now.''

-Where will the dog be?

-What do you mean?

l have a phobia.

A fear.

l'm distressed by dogs.

He is afraid of dogs.

Bullshit,

no one is afraid of dogs.

Grandfather informs me

this is not possible.

What?

Get in the car.

The b*tch and the Jew

will share the back seat.

lt is big enough for both of them.

No, wait. Wait.

You don't understand.

l have a very serious, serious problem

with dogs.

l can't sit in there. You--

Were you able to manufacture the:

-What?

-The Z's.

Were you able to make the:

-l don't understand.

-Repose.

Did you repose?

Yeah, l reposed.

Good. Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.

is also in repose.

-Why do you call her that?

-What?

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.

Because Sammy Davis Jr.

was Grandfather's most beloved singer.

You know, The Candy Man.

The Negro from the Rat Pack.

-And a Jew.

-What?

Yeah, he was a Jew.

You didn't know that?

Grandfather, the Jew says that

Sammy Davis Jr. is Jewish.

The b*tch?

Not Jr. Jr., Jr. the singer.

That's bullshit!

Grandfather informs me

that this is not possible.

Of course it is. He converted. He's the most

famous black Jew in America.

-Please tell me, is the Shaq also the Jew?

-Who?

-Shaquille O'Neal, the Los Angeles Laker.

-No.

-And Michael Jackson?

-No, definitely not a Jew.

Father informs me you are writing a book

about this trip. You are a writer?

No.

Then what is this?

lt's a catalog.

Catalog.

Catalog.

l don't know why they told you that.

l'm not a writer.

l mean, l write, but l'm more of...

...a collector, really.

And what do you collect?

Things.

Family things.

lt is a good career, yes?

No, it's not a career.

lt's just something l do.

Why?

l don't know. Why does anybody

do anything? lt's just something to do.

l understand.

l also enjoy writing...

...but l truly feel l was born

to be accountant.

Are we close?

The Jew wants to know

if we are close.

Tell him to shut the hell up!

Grandfather says we're very proximal.

He says it will not be long

until we get to the superway to Lutsk.

And from there?

How long from here to Lutsk?

Perhaps you would like me

to stop the car...

...and you two can

f*** yourselves to Lutsk!

What did he say?

Grandfather says you should look out

the window at the premium countryside.

-Are you hungry?

-Yes.

-l just hope they have something l can eat.

-What do you mean?

l'm a vegetarian.

You're a what?

l don't eat meat.

How can you not eat meat?

l just don't.

He says he does not eat meat.

What?

-No meat?

-No meat.

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Liev Schreiber

Isaac Liev Schreiber (; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of horror films, Ransom (1996), Phantoms (1998), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Omen (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Taking Woodstock (2009), Salt (2010), Goon (2011), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Spotlight (2015). Schreiber is also a stage actor, having performed in several Broadway productions. In 2005, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. That year, he made his debut as a film director and writer with Everything Is Illuminated (2005), based on the novel of the same name. Schreiber has had further success in the television world, notably portraying the eponymous protagonist of the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–present); the role has earned him five Golden Globe Award nominations and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also narrates the HBO series 24/7, as well as various PBS programs. more…

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