While Sundance 2024 was a bit of a sleepy affair, one of the bigger hits of the festival, quickly acquired by Searchlight Pictures, was “A Real Pain,” the latest directorial effort of actor/filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg. Written by Eisenberg and co-starring himself and “Succession” star Kieran Culkin, the comedic drama centers on a pair of incompatible cousins, one bright and successful (Eisenberg), the other lost and floundering (Culkin), who make a trek to Poland to see the ancestral home of their beloved grandmother and honor her memory.
