Jesse Eisenberg had a bad case of writer’s block. The Oscar nominee was penning a script about two friends who take a trip to Mongolia. The characters were pulled from two plays he had written: one about a guy named David,

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the dismissiveness when it came to Jesse Eisenberg. The actor he grew into, with his Oscar-nominated turn in “The Social Network,

Both that movie and “A Real Pain,” from Searchlight Pictures, were produced by Eisenberg’s Oscar-winning “ Zombieland ” co-star Emma Stone (”Poor Things,” “La La Land”) and her husband Dave McCary, under their Fruit Tree production company.