Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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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...
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-02-24
Runtime: 99 mins
Director: Roberto Faenza
Writer: Roberto Faenza, Dahlia Heyman
Spoken language: English, Italiano, 日本語
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Original title: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Production Companies: BNL – Gruppo BNP Paribas, Jean Vigo Italia, Four of a Kind Productions, The 7th Floor, MiC, RAI Cinema
Production Countries: Italy, United States of America
Cast
Toby Regbo
Marcia Gay Harden
Peter Gallagher
Lucy Liu
Stephen Lang
Deborah Ann Woll
Ellen Burstyn
Aubrey Plaza
Gilbert Owuor
Dree Hemingway
Olek Krupa
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Brooke Schlosser
Kyle Coffman
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