“I know that my pain is unexceptional so I don’t feel the need to burden everyone with it.” That particular moment is exquisitely managed by Eisenberg, in all his roles here. But A Real Pain ...

So this character of Dory in A Real Pain was a combination of my cousin Maria, who survived, and my great-aunt Doris, who kind of shaped my life.” This traumatic family history was, for a time ...

"What is real pain?" he says. "Is my character's manageable, medicated OCD pain valid? Is Kieran's pain valid ... [if] he's experiencing the worst of what a psyche can experience, but at the same ...