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...
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You has generally received mixed reviews.
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You was released in 2012 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 28 reviews, giving Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012) an average rating of 42%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 39%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 42%, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2012, which stands at 58%.
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