Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)
Average Rating: 2.5/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a heart warming, funny and passionate portrait of a confused New York teenager, James Sveck, played by up-and-coming star Toby Regbo, and his loving, eccentric and dysfunctional family. James's staunch non-conformism leads him to teenage mistakes that are hard to undo. He refuses to go to college, after being accepted at Brown, and is interested in nothing - barring visits to his enigmatic, free-spirited grandmother Nanette, played by Oscar winner Ellen
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Cast
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Toby Regbo
James -
Marcia Gay Harden
Marjorie -
Peter Gallagher
Paul -
Lucy Liu
Rowena -
Stephen Lang
Barry Rogers -
Ellen Burstyn
Nanette -
Deborah Ann Woll
Gillian -
Aubrey Plaza
Jeanine Breemer -
Gilbert Owuor
John -
Dree Hemingway
Rhonda -
Olek Krupa
Henryk Maria -
Siobhan Fallon
Mrs. Breemer -
Brooke Schlosser
Sue Kenney -
Kyle Coffman
Dakin -
Jonny Weston
Thom -
Kate Kiley
Mrs. Wright -
Christopher Mann
Guard -
Rekha Elizabeth Luther
Olivia -
Greg McFadden
Waiter -
Dieter Riesle
Man Visitor -
Rainer Judd
Woman Visitor -
Amelia Workman
Young Woman -
Peter Kim
Funeral Waiter -
Sawyer Avery
Jack -
Rhonda Jensen
Sarah
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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (10)
This cliche-ridden coming of age story is as painfully awkward as its troubled teen protagonist.
Top CriticSeveral kinds of excruciating.
His pain may be useful to James someday, but to viewers, it's annoying right here and now.
These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like "Predatory College Professor" and "Self-Obsessed Father" on them.
The film is a pleasant watch, filled with nice little moments of comedy and tenderness, and optimistic about the fate of dreamers who happen to be a little slow out of the starting gate.
Listless coming-of-age drama about teen's ho-hum "problems."
The film takes itself too seriously while it tackles familiar territory.
It's not exactly a trainwreck of a movie, but Someday This Pain is so void of depth and meaning, it often resembles a parody of the bruised teen subgenre.
The actors work overtime to make this would-be sensitive study of troubled youth work, but are undone by the windy triteness of the script.
It might actually make audiences understand the urge to bully.
Roberto Faenza shoots his Manhattan-set action with a glossiness that's as bland as the soundtrack ballads.
Audience Reviews for Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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- Nanette: Be patient and strong, someday this pain will be useful to you.
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- James: I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.
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