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,

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.

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,