Available now on Digital and coming to Blu-ray February 4th is the funny and emotional story about facing trauma,– A Real Pain. Read on to find out what bonus features are included with your purchase of one of my top films of 2024.
A Real Pain
Equally funny and emotional, A Real Pain tells a story about navigating familial relationships and how facing deeply rooted pain can be both traumatic and freeing. It is a dramedy. A buddy road-trip film that starts off funny before taking a turn onto a more sobering ground, making for a rocky but heartwarming ride. It takes a slightly different spin on the straight man/funny man routine, with Eisenberg fully embracing the former and Kieran Culkin becoming instantly memorable as the latter. These two play well off each other, with a familiarity that makes it believable these two grew up together, which makes the highs and lows of their trip all the more poignant.
Cousins David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Culkin) find themselves reunited after the death of their grandmother. In her will, she left them money to visit Poland, to discover more about her life there during and after the Holocaust. These two couldn't be any more different. David is a straitlaced, albeit high-strung, successful man with a wife and child. He isn't the life of the party but he is dependable, organized, and definitely the “parent” in any given group dynamic. Benji on the other hand is a free-spirited, fun, likable guy who seems to make friends wherever he goes. But as with a lot of outwardly comedic people, his laughter hides a darkness. Everything comes to a head when the two come face-to-face with their family's history during a Holocaust remembrance tour.
A Real Pain Bonus Features
Beautiful Fate: Making A Real Pain – Take a tour through the heart and history of Poland while going behind the scenes of A Real Pain. Explore the themes of family and connection with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. Experience all the humor and humanity that brought this story to life.
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