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JL;DR SUMMARY "A Real Pain," a film by Jesse Eisenberg, explores the journey of two Jewish American cousins, David and Benji, as they navigate a heritage tour in Poland after their Holocaust-survivor grandmother's death. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureJewish HistoryHolocaustJewish IdentityPolandFamilial RelationshipsJesse EisenbergCultural DepictionHeritage TourCinema Critique

Places mentioned

Poland
"heritage tour of Jewish Poland"
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"David has a wife, Priya, and young child, Abe, in Brooklyn"
Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"and Majdanek, where it was brutally and systematically extinguished"
Krasnik, Lublin, Poland
"the cousins end up in Krasnik by mistake"
Lublin, Poland
"If its Tuesday, this must be Lublin"
Canada
"a kinship with the Jewish community who helped him when he made it to Canada"
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"to serve soup to tourists in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Krakow"
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