Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
DramaComedy
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...
VIBE
This film feels like a quiet, introspective summer afternoon spent pondering life's big questions. It's a witty, sometimes melancholic, look at a sensitive teen navigating the awkwardness of growing up and finding his place in a world that doesn't quite make sense.
melancholicwittyintrospectiveawkwardsteadyindie dramacharacter studyslice-of-lifeidentitycoming-of-agefamilyalienation
based on novel or bookteen angstlate coming of agegay theme
