Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

5.5 / 10 2012 1h 39mNR English
DramaComedy

Storyline

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...

Cast & Crew

Toby Regbo

Toby Regbo

James Sveck

Lead
Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

Marjorie Dunfour

Peter Gallagher

Peter Gallagher

Paul Sveck

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Rowena Adler

Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang

Barry Rogers

Deborah Ann Woll

Deborah Ann Woll

Gillian Sveck

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Nanette

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza

Jeanine Breemer

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Roberto Faenza's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker