‘A Real Pain’ Gets Digital Release With Behind-the-Scenes Bonus Content: How to Watch the Golden Globe Winner Online
variety.comAnna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “A Real Pain,” which earned Kieran Culkin a Golden Globe on Sunday night, is available to rent/purchase on all digital platforms.
The film will also release on Blu-ray starting Tuesday, Feb. 4, and is available to pre-order on Amazon. The Jesse Eisenberg-directed film, which picked up four Golden Globes nods, stars Eisenberg and Culkin as mismatched New York Jewish cousins as they travail Poland in honor of their late grandmother who lived there before the Holocaust.
David (Eisenberg) is a buttoned up neurotic on OCD medicine while Benji is a charming fuckup with no prospects but a mouth that is equally hilarious and malignantly obnoxious (Culkin).
On their journey, the two visit a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, come to grips with a suicide attempt and wonder about how their own pain compares with the pain their ancestors endured during the Holocaust.
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