Rotten
This cliche-ridden coming of age story is as painfully awkward as its troubled teen protagonist.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012 · 1h 39m
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Roberto Faenza
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...
Director and cast
- Roberto Faenza Director
- Toby Regbo as James Sveck
- Marcia Gay Harden as Marjorie Dunfour
- Lucy Liu as Life Coach
- Peter Gallagher as Paul Sveck
- Stephen Lang as Barry Rogers
- Deborah Ann Woll as Gillian Sveck
- Ellen Burstyn as Nanette
- Aubrey Plaza as Real Estate Agent
- Gilbert Owuor Cast
- Dree Hemingway Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Several kinds of excruciating.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Rotten
His pain may be useful to James someday, but to viewers, it's annoying right here and now.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
It might actually make audiences understand the urge to bully.
Alison Willmore, AV Club
Rotten
These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like "Predatory College Professor" and "Self-Obsessed Father" on them.
Chris Packham, Village Voice
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