Nathan Caine, played by Jack Quaid (“The Boyz,” “The Companion”), has anhidrosis, an actual if very rare condition. He cannot ...

Novocaine could have been written by a 12-year-old, and I’m not sure I mean that pejoratively. It’s a riff on superhero ...

NovocaineApple Cinema XtremeHartfordMarch 19, 2025 Bank assistant Nate (Jack Quaid) is a typical everyday guy, except that he ...

Novocaine is a bloody movie that mixes action with comedy while taking the concept of painlessness to extreme levels.

Far from the usually straightforward hero-rescues-damsel storyline, the movie ends with a major twist that turns the whole ...

"Novocaine" is a delightfully gross-out movie about a man (Jack Quaid) who can't feel pain who has to rescue the woman he ...

bank assistant manager Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), uses his inability to feel pain (known as the condition called Congenital Pain Insensitivity and Anhidrosis) as a superpower. After his coworker ...

But it hurts seeing “Novocaine” squander a promising setup, with an unusually effective depiction of a romance in its first-date stage. The movie’s star, Jack Quaid, best known for “The Boys,” acquits ...

It is, but it's very unlikely you'll come across it. The odds of being born with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhidrosis, or CIPA, is about 1 in 125 million. "CIPA is a genetic disorder in ...

He plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a genetic disorder that impacts his nervous system to the point that ...

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), suffers from something called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA), which is a real condition that probably doesn’t work quite as conveniently as it ...