Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

96 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 24, 2012

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...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

96 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 24, 2012

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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...
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Jean Vigo Italia, The 7th Floor, Four of a Kind Productions, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Rai Cinema
Original title Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Directors Barbara Maia, Scott Lazar, Jessica Hong, Erin Feeley, Roberto Faenza
Writers Dahlia Heyman, Peter Cameron, Roberto Faenza

Cast

Toby Regbo

as James Sveck

Marcia Gay Harden

as Marjorie Dunfour

Peter Gallagher

as Paul Sveck

Lucy Liu

as Rowena Adler

Stephen Lang

as Barry Rogers

Deborah Ann Woll

as Gillian Sveck

Ellen Burstyn

as Nanette

Aubrey Plaza

as Jeanine Breemer

Gilbert Owuor

as John Webster

Dree Hemingway

as Rhonda

Olek Krupa

as Henryk Maria

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

as Mrs. Beemer

Brooke Schlosser

as Sue Kenney

Kyle Coffman

as Dakin

Jonny Weston

as Thom

Kate Kiley

as Mrs. Wright

Christopher Mann

as Guard

Rekha Luther

as Olivia

Greg McFadden

as Robert

Dieter Riesle

as Man Visitor

Rainer Judd

as Woman Visitor

Amelia Workman

as Young Woman

Peter Y. Kim

as Funeral Waiter

Rhonda Jensen

as Sarah