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Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother

The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.. When Benji and David visit their grandmother's home in Poland, the location is where Jesse Eisenberg's real-life ancestors settled in diaspora.. Benji Kaplan: We stay moving, we stay light, we stay agile.David Kaplan: Yeah.Benji Kaplan: The conductor’s gonna come through, taking tickets, we tell him we’re going to the bathroom.David Kaplan: Bathroom.Benji Kaplan: He gets to the back of the train, he starts heading towards the front looking for stragglers.David Kaplan: Sorry, we’re the stragglers?Benji Kaplan: Yeah.

We shouldn’t have to pay for train tickets in Poland

By the time he gets to the front, the train’s gonna be in the station and we’re home free.David Kaplan: This is so fucking stupid. Tickets are probably like twelve bucks.Benji Kaplan: It’s the principle of the thing. This is our country.David Kaplan: No, it’s not, it was our country.

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They kicked us out ’cause they thought we were cheap.. A Real Pain is a wonderful movie. Jessie Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin both give some of the best performances of their careers.

This movie has a constantly intriguing, emotional, and funny screenplay

I definitely believe Culkin will be a front runner for the Oscars this year. Eisenberg also wrote the script for this movie and directed it. He knocked it out of the park with both of these tasks as well.

The movie deals with some heavy themes and handles all of them so tastefully

This is a movie that clearly meant something to everyone making it and I believe you can see that in the final product.