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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

20121h 39mDrama · Comedy
directed by Roberto Faenza
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5.5 / 10
127 votes
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5.7 / 10
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20 / 100
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Synopsis

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

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