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Everything Is Illuminated
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1650
- IMDb #1314
- Rotten Tomatoes #1891
- Metacritic #2147
- Letterboxd #1473
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3056
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #655
- Metacritic Critics #2633
- Metacritic Audience #1282
- Criticker #1154
- Kinopoisk #924
- AlloCiné #1665
- Trakt #1928
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 62, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young American Jew named Jonathan travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided by a quirky local translator and his irritable grandfather, who serves as their driver. Their journey into the countryside becomes a poignant and humorous exploration of their family histories, unearthing forgotten stories and traumas from the past that connect them in unexpected ways.
Details
- Director
- Liev Schreiber
- Writer
- Liev Schreiber
- Based on
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Released
- 5 September 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $7.0M
- Box office
- $3.6M
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Cast
Full cast (14) →
Awards
7 wins & 6 nominations total
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