A Real Pain

Mismatched cousins Benji and David travel to Poland to pay respects to their Jewish grandmother. No sooner are they on the road when they realise why they don’t spend much time together anymore.  

Jesse Eisenberg (who also serves as the film’s writer, director and producer) and Kieran Culkin dazzle in their roles as the familial odd-couple, trading witty barbs and sobering ruminations on mid-adulthood growing pains, in this deftly scripted film full of humour and hope.