Members Exclusive: A Real Pain

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Winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the standout feature A Real Pain stars Jesse Eisenberg (Resistance) and Kieran Culkin (Succession) in an odd-couple road movie for the ages, an irreverent, funny, but deeply empathetic comedy that doubles as a profound meditation on family, kinship, and the hope that can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Once-close cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) are polar opposites who have drifted apart in the maelstrom of adulthood. When the passing of their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, sparks a chance to reconnect on a tour through Poland to visit her homeland, the pair find themselves frequently at odds, as Benji’s penchant for loose cannon chaos clashes with David’s buttoned-up calm and sense of order. Alongside an eclectic group of fellow travelers (portrayed by a terrific supporting cast that includes Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Grey) and facing the overwhelming history embedded in the sites scarred by the genocide of World War II, David and Benji move ever closer to reconciling their complicated personal and familial histories with the people they have become.