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Jesse Eisenberg’s 'A Real Pain' is a touching comedy based on his own family’s history

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.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.