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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012 · 99 min

A quiet, introspective drift through a sensitive teenager's restless summer, more mood than momentum, asking patience and rewarding empathy.

Directed by
Roberto Faenza
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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...

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Free in the UK
  • Tubi TV
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Directed by
Roberto Faenza
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • isolation
  • family
  • sexuality
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Roberto Faenza
Written by
Dahlia Heyman, Roberto Faenza
Starring
Toby Regbo, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Lucy Liu, Stephen Lang, Deborah Ann Woll, Ellen Burstyn, Aubrey Plaza
Music
Andrea Guerra
Cinematography
Maurizio Calvesi
Runtime
99 min
Country
Italy, United States of America
Languages
Italian, Japanese, English

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