After acquiring the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Pictures will release Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain on October 18th, according to Deadline.
What’s Happening:
- Eisenberg (The Social Network) stars in A Real Pain alongside new Emmy-winner Kieran Culkin (Succession) as mismatched cousins David and Benji. They reunite for a tour of Poland to honor their grandmother, but older tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family’s history.
- Also starring in A Real Pain are:
- Jennifer Grey (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
- Will Sharpe (The White Lotus)
- Kurt Egyiawan (Beasts of No Nation)
- Liza Sadovy (A Small Light)
- Daniel Oreskes (Only Murders in the Building)
- In addition to starring in A Real Pain, the film is also directed by Eisenberg.
- The film is produced by Topic and Fruit Tree, with Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Ewa Puszczynska, Jennifer Semler, Eisenberg and Emma Stone.
- A Real Pain will be released theatrically on October 18th, right in the thick of awards season.
- Check out Alex’s review of A Real Pain from a screening during Sundance.
More Searchlight Pictures News:
- Searchlight Pictures has released the official teaser for Kinds of Kindness which will be in select theaters starting June 21st.
- Five major roles have been secured by Searchlight Pictures for its upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.
- Searchlight Pictures have shared the official trailer for their upcoming film The Greatest Hits, which is coming to select theaters on April 5th and then dropping on Hulu the following week.