Film

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012 · 1h 39m · Drama · Comedy

IMDb

5.7

Rotten Tomatoes

9%

Metacritic

20

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...

Toby Regbo

James Sveck

Marcia Gay Harden

Marjorie Dunfour

Peter Gallagher

Paul Sveck

Lucy Liu

Rowena Adler

Stephen Lang

Barry Rogers

Deborah Ann Woll

Gillian Sveck

Ellen Burstyn

Nanette

Aubrey Plaza

Jeanine Breemer

Gilbert Owuor

John Webster

Dree Hemingway

Rhonda

Olek Krupa

Henryk Maria

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Mrs. Beemer

Brooke Schlosser

Sue Kenney

Kyle Coffman

Dakin

Jonny Weston

Thom

Kate Kiley

Mrs. Wright

• Roberto FaenzaWriter · Director
• Dahlia HeymanWriter · Executive Producer
• Peter CameronNovel
• Elda FerriProducer
• Milena CanoneroProducer
• Ron SteinProducer
• Rose GanguzzaExecutive Producer
• Avy KaufmanCasting · Executive Producer
• Simona BellettiniExecutive Producer
• Maurizio CalvesiDirector of Photography

Release date

February 24, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$532,777

Genres

Drama, Comedy

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