when i first saw this movie and i have think that it be go to be a terrible upset and be direct by first time director liev schrieber . what i saw in the next 130 minute completely and utterly change my mind . base on the novel by jonathan safran foer and everything be illuminate tell the story of a young jewish american collector ( masterfully play by elijah wood ) who be try to find the woman who save his grandfather from the nazi in wwii . he travel to germany and enlists in the help of a 20 something and club hitting translator and his grandfather . this result in a rigid search across the country and and they be determine to find what they be look for . shot in some of the most beautiful countryside in the world and everything be illuminated delivers tension between the translator and his grandfather and and of the help that jonathan need to find his quarry . there be much religious matter a well and a the grandfather refers to jonathan a the jew . all in all and this be a movie that deal with find yourself and love family . i give this wonderful and if not illuminate movie and a positive . arjun .