Enlightenment Guaranteed
★ 6.9 · 2000 · 109m · Comedy · Drama
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.
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