When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, a man incapable of feeling physical pain turns his rare condition into an unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her.
Not as painful to watch as you might think.
FUN FACT: Dan Berk and Robert Olsen visualized Jack Quaid as the perfect lead. From watching his performance on the murderous superhero series "The Boys," Berk and Olsen saw an energy in his everyman comedic performances that inspired them to dub him his generation's Tom Hanks. Yet to perfect this role took an unconventional skill set. "Jack had to rewire his brain so that he could get punched and not flinch," Olsen says. "Your whole life as an actor, you're told to sell the hit, and when you get punched, you flinch, you wince, you sell the pain. He had to work with our stunt coordinator, Stanimir Stamatov, to untrain himself from that."
Novocaine
Director
Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Film Rating
R
Cast
Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Jacob Batalon, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh
Year
2025
Run Time
1h 50min