"I was at the premiere, and I was dying laughing," Culkin told the Los Angeles Times in December. "It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what the movie was abou

Here's what the bittersweet ending of A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin really means. Jesse Eisenberg, best known for The Social Network, made his directorial debut with When You Finish Saving the World.

The buddy comedy is back with Succession breakout Kieran Culkin and The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg in their familial road comedy A Real Pain. The film, written and directed by Eisenberg, is sitting pretty with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and nestled in the top spot on Hulu's Top 10.

Culkin, who won a Golden Globe for 'A Real Pain' almost pulled out of the project until producer Emma Stone flew him to the set

Kieran Culkin played Fuller McCallister, while his brother Macaulay Culkin starred as cousin Kevin, in ‘Home Alone’

Kieran Culkin gives his 'A Real Pain' co-star and director, Jesse Eisenberg, his gum mid-speech while accepting an award from National Board of Review.

The duo discuss their beautifully bittersweet road movie A Real Pain, which is already a favorite this awards season

The character of our grandmother is based on my Aunt Doris. She was bored and raised in Poland, was such an unusual person and gave me such grounding in my life. She died at 101 and while the film is fictional, it has many personal, autobiographical elements that came out, like my aunt and even filming at the home my family lived in in Poland.

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Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain explores intergenerational trauma and survivor's guilt in a darkly comic, weighty meditation on grief.

So “A Real Pain” is a buddy comedy-drama written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s “The Social Network” and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

“This will be a tour about pain,” cautions James, the earnest British guide shepherding a group of American Jews on a tour of Poland. The small group includes David and Benji, two cousins from New York on a visit to Poland to honour their recently deceased grandmother Dori, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust.