Warning: this article contains spoilers for the movie A Real Pain and briefly mentions suicide. Director Jesse Eisenberg's newest film A Real Pain is now streaming on Hulu, and the acclaimed movie ...

C ompared to the rest of the current box office slate, Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain has been a relatively small performer. .

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.

But Jesse Eisenberg finds it difficult to not feel miserable. The actor-writer-director's latest film, a poignant comic-drama costarring Kieran Culkin, earned him an Academy Award nomination for ...

Jesse Eisenberg, right, wrote, directed and, with Kieran Culkin, co-starred in “A Real Pain” as cousins trying to reconnect after the death of their grandmother. (Kate Dockeray / For The Times ...

Jesse Eisenberg: I went to Majdanek, where we filmed, with my wife, and Dachau, but it was just us, not a tour. And Auschwitz. I don’t like vacations, but I love learning.

Jesse Eisenberg has written, directed and starred in a film based loosely on his own family, with a story about two cousins visiting the former home in Poland of their grandparents.