| Overall: | C+ |
|---|---|
| Violence: | C- |
| Sexual Content: | B- |
| Language: | C- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
| Run Time: | 106 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 21 Mar 2006 |
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Everything is Illuminated is rated PG-13: for disturbing images/violence, sexual content and language.
Director: Live Schreiber
Cast: Eugene Hutz, Elijah Wood
Studio: 2005 Warner Home Video
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
