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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You(2012)
Status: Released
Date: 2012-02-24
56%
120 Votes
Time: 1h 39m
Overview:
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...
Languages: English, Italian, Japanese.
Countries:
Italy,
United States of America
Budget: $8,000,000.00
Revenue: $532,777.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Jean Vigo Italia
Four of a Kind Productions
The 7th Floor
Movie: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Top 10 Billed Cast
Toby Regbo
James Sveck
Marcia Gay Harden
Marjorie Dunfour
Peter Gallagher
Paul Sveck
Lucy Liu
Rowena Adler
Stephen Lang
Barry Rogers
Deborah Ann Woll
Gillian Sveck
Ellen Burstyn
Nanette
Aubrey Plaza
Jeanine Breemer
Gilbert Owuor
John Webster
Dree Hemingway
Rhonda
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