Some people collect stamps, cigar bands or teacups. Jonathan saves memories of family: photos, cards, false teeth, handfuls of dirt - all sealed in individual bags and mounted on a wall. Now Jonathan seeks a more elusive memory. He'll journey to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis in 1942. Liev Schreiber (SCREAM, RKO 281) makes his debut on the other side of the camera, directing and adapting (from Jonathan Safran Foer's novel) an affecting road movie. Elijah Wood stars as buttoned-up Jonathan, and Eugene Hutz plays his language-battering Ukrainian guide. Join them as cultures clash...and as the road leads where they want to go yet never expected. They, and you, will emerge illuminated.

i think this is one of the few films that i enjoy more than the novel; although dont get me wrong, the
novel is just as hilarious as the film is, and alex gets developed as a character a lot more in the novel,
but theres a lot of awkward family history in the novel that doesnt make it to the film, and i have to
admit im a fan of that.