When his Lord of the Rings honeymoon ran its billion-dollar course, Elijah Wood seemed to be at a career crossroads. Luckily for him, he seems to have stumbled upon the perfect transition film in Liev Schreiber's Everything Is Illuminated. Let's hope it doesn't fly completely under the radar.

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Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated is the story of the author's journey to track down the woman who saved his grandfather during the Nazi…

In his debut as a director and screenwriter, Liev Schreiber -- a smart, risk-taking actor -- falls into the traps set by an unadaptable novel. Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling 2002 meta-memoir centers on an obsessive writer named Jonathan (Elijah Wood) who collects artifacts of his life and hangs them on his wall to make sense of the past. Leaving New York for the Ukraine, Jonathan hopes to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. The book rivals the work of Kurt Vonnegut for…