Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

The story

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...

Cast & crew

Toby RegboJames Sveck

Marcia Gay HardenMarjorie Dunfour

Peter GallagherPaul Sveck

Lucy LiuRowena Adler

Stephen LangBarry Rogers

Deborah Ann WollGillian Sveck

Ellen BurstynNanette

Aubrey PlazaJeanine Breemer

Gilbert Owuor

Gilbert OwuorJohn Webster

Dree HemingwayRhonda

Olek KrupaHenryk Maria

Siobhan Fallon HoganMrs. Beemer