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Released
2024 · FILM

A Real Pain

Two estranged cousins with clashing worldviews embark on a Jewish heritage tour through Poland, forcing them to confront their differences and the weight of family history before they can reconnect with their roots.

“Join the family.”

Directed by
Jesse Eisenberg
Written by
Jesse Eisenberg
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

David and Benji, mismatched cousins, reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their late grandmother. As they travel together, their old tensions resurface, complicated by the context of their shared family history.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert NassauShot by Michal DymekDesigned by Mela Melak

Box Office

2024 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$24.9M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$24.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $8.3M — 34% of worldwide · International: $16.5M (66%)

Opening weekend: $229K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $318K — 4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

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