Exclusive Sneak Preview of "A REAL PAIN" directed/starring Jesse Eisenberg

Opens Nationwide on NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

Runtime: 89 min

Rating: R

Jesse Eisenberg

Dave McCary, Ali Herting p.g.a., Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg p.g.a., Jennifer Semler, Ewa Puszczynska

Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes

Back Story:

It was during a trip to Poland, with his now-wife Anna Strout, that Jesse Eisenberg had what he calls a ‘strange revelation’. A two-week trip through the country landed him at the tiny house in the village of Kranystaw, where his aunt Doris had lived before the Holocaust displaced her entire family. “Had the war not happened, this is where I would be living,” Eisenberg remembers thinking. “What would my life be like? Who would I be?”

Twenty years later Eisenberg found himself back at that house, this time as the director, writer, and co-star of A REAL PAIN. In the film Eisenberg plays David, a New Yorker and young father who goes on a tour of Polish Holocaust history accompanied by his cousin Benji, played by Kieran Culkin, thanks to money left by their recently deceased grandmother. Joining a tour group led by the affable James, played by Will Sharpe, David and Benji rekindle their childhood bonds as they grapple with the family tragedies of the past that still, in some ways, define them.

Host or Publisher Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival