Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)

02/24/2012 (IT) • 1h 39m

Drama, Comedy

Overview

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...

Top Billed 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

Aubrey Plaza

Jeanine Breemer

Gilbert Owuor

John Webster


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$8,000,000.00

Revenue

$532,777.00

Keywords

based on novel or book

teen angst

lgbt

late coming of age

gay theme

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