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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
The film is about a troubled teenager in New York James Civic who lives next to his loving family. James seems to be an eccentric and James has a deep understanding of the world and has no idea how to live in it naturally. Along the way, his grandmother, who is built on a free spirit, tries to know how James feels and may succeed in achieving it.
13 May 1961, Syracuse, New York, USA
18 October 1985, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
7 February 1985, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
2 December 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
18 March 1947, Rybnik, Slaskie, Poland
March 08, 2012
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.
October 04, 2012
It might actually make audiences understand the urge to bully.
October 03, 2012
Roberto Faenza shoots his Manhattan-set action with a glossiness that's as bland as the soundtrack ballads.
October 04, 2012
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.
October 08, 2012
The film takes itself too seriously while it tackles familiar territory.
October 04, 2012
Several kinds of excruciating.
October 04, 2012
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.
October 04, 2012
His pain may be useful to James someday, but to viewers, it's annoying right here and now.
October 02, 2012
These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like "Predatory College Professor" and "Self-Obsessed Father" on them.
October 08, 2012
This cliche-ridden coming of age story is as painfully awkward as its troubled teen protagonist.
October 24, 2012
Listless coming-of-age drama about teen's ho-hum "problems."