While Jesse Eisenberg's David is perhaps the "everyman" and the audience's entry point into the story, Benji is the heart of ...

It’s part comedy, part tragedy. It’s part road-trip saga, part odd couple-buddy flick, and part Holocaust film. What could possibly have gone wrong? Yup – everything could have gone wrong. So the ...

That’s the longest amount of time Kieran Culkin can stand to be apart from ... director costar as a pair of cousins who travel to Poland to see their grandmother’s birthplace and visit Jewish ...

The best way to play a free-spirited man who gets under his cousin’s skin is not to prepare at all, says Kieran Culkin. “You never quite know what’s gonna come out of him and I didn’t want to plan ...

Kieran Culkin won the 2025 Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his performance as Benji in this ...

In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past In this almost perfect little film, ...

Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain explores intergenerational trauma and survivor's guilt in a darkly comic, weighty meditation on ...

Kieran Culkin has just earned his first Oscar nomination for his performance in 'A Real Pain' by Jesse Eisenberg. He is nominated for 'Best Supporting Actor'.

For the past dozen years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor has hailed from a Best Picture nominee. But ...

Jesse Eisenberg’s second film as writer and director follows the tale of two very different cousins on a Holocaust tour.

Here’s how it works. A Real Pain focuses on two cousins going on a trip through Poland to honor their late grandmother. Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin share basically every scene together and ...

Eisenberg (who also directs) plays David, a Jewish New Yorker whose grandmother left money in her will for him and his cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) to visit Poland, where she narrowly escaped ...