We’re still a few months away from the Oscar nominations being announced — but it’s already a safe bet that “A Real Pain” will appear in several categories.

The comedy-drama – which was written, directed by and starring Jesse Eisenberg – follows two cousins ​​(Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) on a journey through Poland to honor their late grandmother, who survived the Holocaust.

“This movie started with the story of these two guys going to Mongolia, loosely based on a short story I had written for Tablet Magazine,” Eisenberg recalls of developing the script. “They meet at the airport, they have this contentious relationship. They fly to Russia and eventually to Mongolia. And I was about 30 pages into the movie when I realized it wasn’t going to work.”

Changing the location to Poland meant shooting the film there — an unforgettable experience for “Dirty Dancing” co-star and icon Jennifer Grey.

“It was mind-blowing and impactful and beautiful and painful and important,” Gray told FOX 5. “Just the adventure of being in a foreign country where I couldn’t learn the language, I couldn’t get my bearings with Google Maps… I would just be lost for hours.

Emmy nominee Will Sharpe (“The White Lotus”) also stars in “A Real Pain,” which opens in select theaters Nov. 1. by Searchlight Pictures. To learn more about the stars, click on the video player in this article.