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


Recommendations

Dream Boat

55%

Another Happy Day

55%

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

60%

Temple

39%

A Pain in the Ass

52%

Beautiful People

60%

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

53%

Indivisible

68%

Spanglish

60%

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

63%

Philomena

73%

Driving Miss Daisy

72%

BPM (Beats per Minute)

77%

Better Watch Out

67%

Pain and Glory

74%

Camp Rock

64%

When Marnie Was There

79%

They Call Me Jeeg

74%

Sleepers

76%

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

74%

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

© All Rights Reserved 2025