Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012•1h 39m•5.5/10

DramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.5/10(125)

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...

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Production

BNL – Gruppo BNP Paribas, Jean Vigo Italia, Four of a Kind Productions, The 7th Floor, MiC, RAI Cinema

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Toby Regbo

Toby Regbo

James Sveck

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

Gilbert Owuor

Gilbert Owuor

John Webster

Dree Hemingway

Dree Hemingway

Rhonda

Olek Krupa

Olek Krupa

Henryk Maria

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Mrs. Beemer

Brooke Schlosser

Sue Kenney

Kyle Coffman

Kyle Coffman

Dakin

Jonny Weston

Jonny Weston

Thom

Kate Kiley

Mrs. Wright

Christopher Mann

Christopher Mann

Guard

Rekha Luther

Rekha Luther

Olivia

Greg McFadden

Robert

Dieter Riesle

Dieter Riesle

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