In 'A Real Pain,' Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past
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Eisenberg uses this cockeyed version of a road movie to tell a funny, moving, casually profound story about family, friendship, the weight of the Jewish past, and the different ways one deals with suffering.
As the group visits graveyards and memorials, heading toward the Majdanek death camp, David and Benji josh around, kvetch, reminisce about the past, and smoke weed on Warsaw rooftops.
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