Jesse Eisenberg ... want,” says Eisenberg. “I remember the director of Zombieland, Ruben Fleischer, said, ‘The six best jokes I’ve seen in a movie in ten years were cut out of our movie.’ ...

Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote, directed and stars as married and uptight David Kaplan, has generated Best Original Screenplay Oscar buzz with a movie that is somehow truly funny and incredibly bleak.

Jesse Eisenberg loved musical theater as a kid growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. At twelve, he told his father, an academic with a Ph.D. in social science, that he dreamed of being in the ...