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Year (Jahr): 2024
Release Date (Veröffentlichungsdatum): 2024-11-01
Duration (Spieldauer): 90 min

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IMDB: 7.6 | Rotten Tomatoes: 96% | Metascore: 85% | TMDB: 6.8
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Director (Regie): Jesse Eisenberg
Actors (Schauspieler): Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Olha Bosova
Writers (Drehbuch): Jesse Eisenberg
Title (Originaltitel): A Real Pain
Country (Land): Poland, United States of America
Original language (Original-Sprache): English

Two cousins. David and Benji. Same car, same trip, zero shared vibe. They head to Poland to honor their recently deceased grandmother and, supposedly, learn more about her life. That’s the plan.

Reality is messier. The road trip starts as a retro postcard tour, then quickly becomes a live wire in the present tense. Every stop feels like it comes with a hidden question: who are you in this family, and why does that history still hurt?

Their relationship does not get “healed” in any clean, Hallmark way. It flares, dodges, and circles back like an argument that’s learned manners but not stopped. Along the way, the past stops behaving like the past, and suddenly the trip is less about the grandmother’s story and more about what they inherited, emotionally speaking.

A Real Pain is sharp, awkwardly funny, and weirdly honest about how family love can look a lot like friction.
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David und Benji sind Cousins, die sich eigentlich nicht riechen können. Trotzdem sitzen sie im selben Auto Richtung Polen, weil die gerade verstorbene Großmutter irgendwie immer noch das Familienprogramm diktiert. Erst wirkt es wie eine kleine Spurensuche. Grabbelkiste Vergangenheit aufmachen, ein paar Erinnerungsfotos abstauben, fertig.

Klappt natürlich nicht. Auf der Straße kippt das Ganze in ein Gespräch, das niemand wirklich gewinnen will. Alte Stiche. Unausgesprochene Dinge. Und die Gegenwart mischt sich ein, sobald David und Benji merken, dass sie nicht nur über ihre Großmutter reden, sondern über sich, ihre Rolle in der Familie und wie die Geschichten dort schon immer auf Zähne beißen.

A Real Pain ist bitterlustig, nicht bequem und erstaunlich treffsicher bei den Themen, die man sonst wegignoriert.

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00:00Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system.
00:03Boner.
00:04Is not available.
00:05Hey, Benji, I just got to the airport.
00:07I really hope you left already.
00:08Oh, God, you made it.
00:10What's up, cuz?
00:11I got some good shit from when we land.
00:13Wait, you're not, like, taking weed into Poland, are you?
00:15Oh, yeah.
00:15Benji?
00:15They don't give a shit about that stuff.
00:16I think they very much do give a shit about that stuff.
00:18Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21Dabers and I are cousins.
00:24We used to be joined at the hip.
00:25Our grandma is from here,
00:27so Dave, arrange for us to join this geriatric Polish tour with you fine people.
00:33I really needed this man.
00:35I know that it's tough for you to leave your boy.
00:37I don't really have anything going on.
00:40I know it's been a tough few months for you, so...
00:42I also want to say that I know you're not the most comfortable person with people.
00:45I'm not?
00:45No.
00:46Does it look real?
00:46Well, they're twice the size of you in metal, so...
00:48You sure you don't want to come up here?
00:49I'm good.
00:50Can you take my picture?
00:51That's what I'm talking about.
00:52What's it?
00:53Thank you, David.
00:54But it's amazing that you're here, putting yourself out there so boldly for me.
00:58Thank you, man.
00:58Let's go smoke a joint.
01:00Word of warning.
01:01This will be a tour about Penn.
01:04Our grandmother and Benji were super close.
01:06I mean, she was the coolest.
01:07I've just been in a real funk, I guess, since she died.
01:11Just haven't...
01:18You're looking back at the horrors of your family history.
01:21We completely cut ourselves off from anyone else's true pain.
01:24Why are you doing this?
01:25Oh, man, you used to, like, feel everything.
01:29Obviously, there are triggers along the way.
01:31We're not at the right station.
01:32And you didn't wake me up?
01:33Oh, you're having such a good nap, dude.
01:35Jesus Christ!
01:36We were on a twerk group of people.
01:37I know, I just didn't have the heart to wake you up.
01:40Has he always been like this?
01:42I love him, and I hate him.
01:46What the flying Jesus?
01:47And I want to be him.
01:48You used to cry about everything.
01:50Yeah, it was awful.
01:51Who wants to cry about everything?
01:52We're on a holocaust tour.
01:53If now is not the time to grieve, I don't have to tell you.
01:56Cry, if you're gonna cry, cry with me.
02:03You alone, just let me be.
02:09You alone, you alone.
02:13You, you ain't alone.
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