A Real Pain

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A Real Pain
A Real Pain (2024 film) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Written byJesse Eisenberg
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichał Dymek
Edited byRobert Nassau
Production
companies
Distributed by Searchlight Pictures
Release dates
  • January 20, 2024 (2024-01-20)(Sundance)
  • November 1, 2024 (2024-11-01)(United States)
  • November 8, 2024 (2024-11-08)(Poland)
Running time
90 minutes [3]
Countries
  • Poland
  • United States [3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million [4]
Box office$11.9 million [5] [6]

A Real Pain is a 2024 buddy road comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. [7] An international co-production between Poland and the United States, it stars Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as mismatched Jewish American cousins who travel to Poland to honor their late grandmother. The cast also includes Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, and Daniel Oreskes.

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Principal photography took place primarily in Poland from May to June 2023. A Real Pain premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award there. The film received critical acclaim, particularly for Culkin's performance and Eisenberg's screenplay, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2024, and in Poland on November 8 by Searchlight Pictures. It grossed over $11 million worldwide against a production budget of $3 million.

A Real Pain was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It received various accolades, including four nominations at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards and two at the 78th British Academy Film Awards; Culkin won Best Supporting Actor at the former ceremony.

Plot

American Jewish cousins David and Benji embark on a trip to Poland to visit the childhood home of their late grandmother and to connect with their heritage. David, a reserved and pragmatic father and husband, contrasts sharply with Benji, a free-spirited and outspoken drifter. Their personalities clash as Benji criticizes David for losing his former passion and spontaneity, while David struggles with Benji's unfiltered outbursts and lack of direction in life.

The pair have traveled as part of a Holocaust tour group led by James, a knowledgeable yet detached gentile British tour guide. The cousins' dynamic is tested throughout the trip, from a missed train stop to a confrontation at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Lublin where Benji critiques the tour's lack of emotional authenticity and challenges its focus on facts and statistics, to David's embarrassment. Benji nonetheless connects with the group members, who find themselves moved by his emotional honesty.

During a group dinner, Benji continues behaving inappropriately and making uncomfortable comments, prompting the tour group to confront him delicately. Benji leaves the table, and David opens up to the group about the complex mixture of admiration, resentment, and envy he feels towards his cousin. He additionally reveals that the two have drifted apart following a suicide attempt by Benji earlier that year.

On their last day of the tour, the group visits Majdanek, a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp. Before departing from the group, James tells Benji that he is the first person on one of his tours to provide him with feedback, and thanks him for changing his perspective on the way he should lead his tour. On their final night in Poland, the cousins smoke marijuana on a hotel rooftop together, where Benji confronts David about his changed personality and why he never visits him. While David initially responds that he is busy with his wife and child, he eventually breaks down and explains that following Benji's suicide attempt, he is unable to bear the thought of a person with Benji's passion for life killing themselves.

David and Benji travel to their grandmother's former home in Krasnystaw as their final stop, where Benji recounts an incident from years earlier where their grandmother slapped him after he arrived late and intoxicated to dinner with her. He states that the slap gave him a sense of clarity and humility, and laments that she was the only person able to keep him disciplined.

The pair return to New York, where Benji declines David's offers to visit his home for dinner and to drive Benji to his train home from Penn Station. This prompts David to slap Benji, though they immediately reconcile and profess that they care deeply about each other. David returns to his home and greets his wife and child, while Benji sits alone at the airport, observing other groups of travelers around him.

Cast

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Left to right: Jennifer Grey, Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Will Sharpe, and Kurt Egyiawan

Production

Development

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Principal photography in Lublin

In August 2022, Screen Daily exclusively announced that Jesse Eisenberg would write, direct, and star in A Real Pain opposite Kieran Culkin. Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting were set to produce for Fruit Tree. [9] A Real Pain is Eisenberg's second feature film as a writer-director and second collaboration with Fruit Tree, following When You Finish Saving the World (2022). [10] It is also Culkin's first major project after the conclusion of the satirical comedy-drama television series Succession (2018–2023). [11]

Eisenberg was unfamiliar with Culkin's work prior to developing A Real Pain, but cast him based on his essence and his sister's recommendation. [12] [13] He did not send Culkin the first ten pages of the script at first because he thought the role should be given to a Jewish actor; [14] Culkin was raised Irish Catholic. [15] Eisenberg initially wanted to play Benji, as he possesses some of his characteristics, but the producers suggested that he should not take on an "unhinged" performance while directing at the same time. [14] He admitted to Vulture that he had "17,000 thoughts" about casting a non-Jewish actor in a role intended for a Jewish character, "and where I come out is [Culkin] gave me an amazing gift by helping to tell this story that is very personal for my family." [16]

Culkin, on the other hand, was hesitant to jump into another "intense" project so soon after wrapping Succession. [17] He tried to back out of A Real Pain two weeks before filming began, citing his need to not be away from his family as the main reason, [18] [19] but he loved Eisenberg's "beautiful" script and When You Finish Saving the World. [17] [18] Stone guilt tripped him into staying on by telling him that if he were to leave, the entire production would essentially fall apart. [19]

Writing

Eisenberg comes from a secular Jewish background and has Polish ancestry. [20] [21] For twenty years, he has struggled with answering the question of how he could reconcile his "modern daily challenges" with his Ashkenazi ancestors' historical trauma as Holocaust victims and survivors. [22] [23] When he started writing A Real Pain in 2022, which initially began as a thought experiment, Eisenberg sought to place two modern, mismatched cousins struggling with "different degrees of pain," such as anxiety and depression, against the backdrop of the horrors of World War II. The setting allowed him to explore those themes in a "visually explicit" manner and "implicitly" ask questions in a way that did not feel didactic. [22]

Filming

Principal photography took place in New York City and various locations across Poland from May to June 2023. [24] [25] Because Eisenberg started writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, he used the street view feature on Google Maps and pictures he took when he traveled to Poland with his wife in 2008 to scout locations and take the tour that the characters were going on. [26] Michał Dymek, the cinematographer, is a native of Warsaw and was raised with historical awareness of the events that occurred in his country. [26] His deep knowledge of his hometown helped Eisenberg film montages that would highlight Poland's beauty: [26]

I wanted the portrayal of Poland in general to feel beautiful and dynamic and colorful and all the things that I feel when I'm there. I feel it's too often depicted as bleak, fetishizing its Eastern European Soviet communist history and fetishizing the horrors of the war. And that's not the Poland I know at all. The Poland I know is vibrant and colorful and warm. So I wanted to show that side of Poland, which is a side that I hadn't seen a lot in American movies, a side that felt just completely true to me.

Dymek's main artistic idea was to work with perspective, as the film features characters who see themselves differently. He wanted to combine their observations by using standard lenses with longer optics, which flattens the perspective to "play with the fact that sometimes the same image can be defined differently by choosing a different focal lens." [27]

Music

The score for A Real Pain is almost entirely composed of piano pieces written by the Polish virtuoso Frédéric Chopin, and performed by Israeli-Canadian classical pianist Tzvi Erez. [2] Among the featured compositions are Chopin's ballades, études, nocturnes, preludes, and waltzes. [28]

Release

A Real Pain premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2024. [29] It also had its European premiere at the Zurich Film Festival, [30] and was screened at the American Film Institute Festival, [31] the BFI London Film Festival, [32] the Haifa International Film Festival, [33] the Heartland International Film Festival, [34] the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, [35] the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, [36] the New Orleans Film Festival, [37] the Newport Beach Film Festival, [38] the New York Film Festival, [39] the Telluride Film Festival, [40] and the Valladolid International Film Festival. [41]

Shortly after its Sundance premiere, Searchlight Pictures acquired worldwide rights to the film for $10 million in an all-night auction. [42] [43] It had a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2024, and began a wide release on November 15. [44] The film was previously scheduled to be released on October 18, but was subsequently pushed by two weeks. [45] A Real Pain premiered in Poland at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews as the opening film of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. [46] [47] It was then distributed to theaters in the country on November 8, 2024. [48] The film will be released in Ireland and the United Kingdom on January 8, 2025. [49] It was previously scheduled to be released on January 10, but was pushed up by two days. [48]

Home media

A Real Pain was released to the digital platforms on December 31, 2024, [50] and will be made available for streaming on Hulu in the U.S. on January 16, 2025. [51] It will be released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and DVD on February 4. [52]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 96% of 233 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10.The website's consensus reads: "Led by a scene-stealing turn from Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain is a powerfully funny, emotionally resonant dramedy that finds writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg playing to his strengths on either side of the camera." [53] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [54]

The Hollywood Reporter 's David Rooney described A Real Pain as "funny, heartfelt, and moving in equal measure." [2] He praised Eisenberg's "impeccable" judgement and great skill at "balancing sardonic wit with piercing solemnity in a movie full of feeling, in which no emotion is unearned." [2] Owen Gleiberman for Variety welcomed Eisenberg into a "hallowed company" of actors who turned out to be born filmmakers, such as Greta Gerwig, Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper. [1] To Ed Potton of The Sunday Times, the story was "perfectly weighted between bleak and warm, poignant and irreverent." [55] Bill Goodykontz, in a review for The Arizona Republic , thought Eisenberg pulled off a magic trick by making a film with "backdrops of pain and despair, both personal and existential, that is also funny, charming and something approaching uplifting." [56] For IndieWire 's annual critics poll, of which 177 critics and journalists from around the world voted, Eisenberg's work placed second on the Best Screenplay list, behind Sean Baker's script for Anora . [57]

Culkin's performance was acclaimed. [58] Ty Burr for The Washington Post wrote that he "walks a line between obnoxiousness and delight; it’s a performance both liberating and touched by a deeper, more inarticulate sadness." [59] Manohla Dargis, writing for The New York Times , thought Culkin was "shockingly great" and articulated Benji's inner turmoil through a "transparently readable, sometimes viscerally destabilizing" manner. [60] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle lauded his "dominating", tour de force performance, writing that Eisenberg invented a new film genre called "the Kieran Culkin movie." [61] Film journalists from Collider , [62] The Hollywood Reporter, [63] Rolling Stone , [64] Time , [65] Vulture, [66] and TheWrap declared Culkin's performance one of the finest of the year. [67] Filmmakers Lena Dunham, Tim Fehlbaum and William Goldenberg praised the film. [68]

Accolades

A Real Pain won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. [69] At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, it received four nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and won Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Culkin. [70] [71] At the 30th Critics' Choice Awards, it received three nominations. [72] The film earned two nominations at the 78th British Academy Film Awards. [73] It additionally received four nominations at the 29th Satellite Awards, [74] two nominations at the 40th Independent Spirit Awards, [75] and one nomination at the 34th Gotham Awards. [76] The American Film Institute and the National Board of Review named A Real Pain as one of the top ten best films of 2024. [77] [78]

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