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‘A Real Pain’: Read The Screenplay That Makes Kieran Culkin & Jesse Eisenberg Traveling Cousins Wanting To Honor Grandma


A Real Pain, Searchlight's Sundance dramedy, marks the sophomore feature directing effort of actor-filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote the script.

Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in "A Real Pain"Searchlight Pictures The The Social Network star also penned the script about a pair of cousins who reunite for a tour of Poland to honor their grandmother, but see older tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family’s history. Hailing from Topic and Fruit Tree, A Real Pain also stars Jennifer Grey ( Dirty Dancing), Will Sharpe ( The White Lotus), Kurt Egyiawan ( Beasts of No Nation), Liza Sadovy ( A Small Light) and Daniel Oreskes ( Only Murders in the Building). For Eisenberg, the film came on the heels of When You Finish Saving the World, his dramedy starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, which was released by A24 in January 2023 after premiering at Sundance.

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