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Jesse Eisenberg speaks at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, May 27, 2025. (Jaeger Photography)
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In S.F., Jesse Eisenberg recounts the very real pain behind ‘A Real Pain’

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Jesse Eisenberg is not immune to writer’s block. It hit the actor, director and writer 25 pages into a screenplay based on one of his short stories. Then an unlikely […]

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