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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

  • 20112011
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 35m
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5.7/10
2.7K
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12,764
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
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A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
37,794
12,764
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    • Director
      • Roberto Faenza
    • Writers
      • Peter Cameron(based on the novel by)
      • Roberto Faenza
      • Dahlia Heyman
    • Stars
      • Toby Regbo
      • Marcia Gay Harden
      • Peter Gallagher
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Roberto Faenza
    • Writers
      • Peter Cameron(based on the novel by)
      • Roberto Faenza
      • Dahlia Heyman
    • Stars
      • Toby Regbo
      • Marcia Gay Harden
      • Peter Gallagher
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 12User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 20Metascore
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations

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    Photos18

    Lucy Liu in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Marcia Gay Harden in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Marcia Gay Harden and Deborah Ann Woll in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Peter Gallagher in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Lucy Liu, Roberto Faenza, and Toby Regbo in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Stephen Lang and Toby Regbo in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Ellen Burstyn and Toby Regbo in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Deborah Ann Woll in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Lucy Liu in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Toby Regbo in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
    Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)

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    Toby Regbo
    Toby Regbo
    • James
    Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden
    • Marjorie
    Peter Gallagher
    Peter Gallagher
    • Paul
    Lucy Liu
    Lucy Liu
    • Rowena
    Stephen Lang
    Stephen Lang
    • Barry Rogers
    Deborah Ann Woll
    Deborah Ann Woll
    • Gillian
    Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn
    • Nanette
    Aubrey Plaza
    Aubrey Plaza
    • Jeanine Breemer
    Gilbert Owuor
    Gilbert Owuor
    • John
    Dree Hemingway
    Dree Hemingway
    • Rhonda
    Olek Krupa
    Olek Krupa
    • Henryk Maria
    Siobhan Fallon Hogan
    Siobhan Fallon Hogan
    • Mrs. Breemer
    • (as Siobhan Fallon)
    Brooke Schlosser
    • Sue Kenney
    Kyle Coffman
    Kyle Coffman
    • Dakin
    Jonny Weston
    Jonny Weston
    • Thom
    Kate Kiley
    • Mrs.Wrght
    Christopher Mann
    Christopher Mann
    • Guard
    Rekha Luther
    Rekha Luther
    • Olivia
    • (as Rekha Elizabeth Luther)
    • Director
      • Roberto Faenza
    • Writers
      • Peter Cameron(based on the novel by)
      • Roberto Faenza
      • Dahlia Heyman
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    • Trivia
      Prestige Film Awards: 2012 Gold Award Winner, Feature Film. 2012 Gold Award Winner, Lead Actor, Toby Regbo playing James Sveck.
    • Quotes

      James Sveck: I'm James Sveck. I'm seventeen and... I don't like to talk much. I hate politics, organized religion and... all of that. People always talk about their lives, but their lives just aren't that interesting. You should only say something if it's interesting or absolutely has to be said. I have nothing interesting to say.

    • Connections
      References Black Narcissus (1947)
    • Soundtracks
      Love Is Requited
      Music by Andrea Guerra

      Lyrics by 'Michele Von Buren'

      Performed by Elisa (as Elisa Toffoli)

    User reviews12

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    Top review
    8/10
    A Holden Caulfield for the 21st century
    James Cameron's story SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU is coming of age tale that is, at turns, funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated. As adapted for the screen by director Roberto Faenza with Cameron and Dahlia Heyman this becomes an experimental film that will delight many and confuse some. The cast is excellent and once the audience moves into the rhythm of the narrated story it is difficult not to re-live youth and pull for the lad whose story this is.

    James Sveck (Toby Regbo) is a lonely young teenager who is tortured by his grossly unstable home environment and is fraught with hating people, suicidal thoughts, depression, and the preference for solitude. It is the summer before he goes off to college at Brown University and he is conflicted: his vain Lothario father (Peter Gallagher) insists that he go to college, his gallery owner mother (Marcia Gay Harden) has just returned form Las Vegas and her third failed marriage - this time to a compulsive gambler (Stephen Lang); his sister Gillian (Deborah Ann Woll) is writing her memoir and falling for an older married Polish professor; and James is working with his mother's gallery director (O'Ryan Graves), trying to make since of art, people, relationships and the chaos of the world that confuses him - the last thing he wants is to enter the college world. His mother lines him up with a Life Coach (Lucy Liu) and slowly James begins to come to grips with a past bad memory and to learn to accept who he is as someone worth living. James only loving connection to the world is his grandmother (Ellen Burstyn) and from her he learns a lot about the vagaries of life and how to cope. The story is told in the first person narration which helps give an intimate inside view of James as he works through his life at the therapy sessions which his parents insist he attend and it is in this manner that we learn about James's past and present through the stories he tells and his recounting of previous therapy sessions and the ambivalences and uncertainties of adolescence.

    The film manages to balance teenage angst and relationship failures with an equal amount of drama and comedy. This is one of those films that linger in memory long after the final credits.

    Grady Harp
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    • Oct 14, 2012

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    • Release date
      • October 5, 2012 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Однажды эта боль принесет тебе пользу
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Jean Vigo Italia
      • Rai Cinema
      • Four of a Kind Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $8,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $666,922
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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