The buddy comedy is back with Succession breakout Kieran Culkin and The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg in their familial road comedy A Real Pain. The film, written and directed by Eisenberg, is sitting pretty with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and nestled in the top spot on Hulu's Top 10.

Here's what the bittersweet ending of A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin really means. Jesse Eisenberg, best known for The Social Network, made his directorial debut with When You Finish Saving the World.

A piece of advice Eisenberg never saw coming but changed everything. The Zombieland actor explained that after landing a role in one of Bob Odenkirk's projects, the comedy veteran agreed to look at Eisenberg’s writing.

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The film, dubbed an heir of Woody Allen, follows Jewish American cousins who travel to Poland in memory of their late grandmother

Halfway through A Real Pain, I realised why Majdanek concentration camp in the Polish town of Lublin sounded so familiar. My grandmother had been there.

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

Best known for this starring role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in this holocaust comedy playing David, who like Eisenberg, suffers from OCD and anxiety disorder.

The character of our grandmother is based on my Aunt Doris. She was bored and raised in Poland, was such an unusual person and gave me such grounding in my life. She died at 101 and while the film is fictional, it has many personal, autobiographical elements that came out, like my aunt and even filming at the home my family lived in in Poland.

A Real Pain follows the cousins as they embark on a Holocaust tour of Poland in memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor who recently passed away. While the pair, who were very close as children,

Jesse Eisenberg's written and directed Oscar ready film A Real Pain has been released in India. Filled with humour, depths of human experience, trauma and moving on from it, it explores the story of two brothers from different walks of life.

I wanted the tone of the movie to be a commentary on these characters falling into old patterns against the backdrop of historical trauma,” the writer, director and star tells THR.