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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

Rating: Yellow
  • 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

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