There’s mom Marjorie (Marcia Gay Harden), mourning the collapse of her latest marriage-this one to gambling addict Barry (Stephen Lang)-as she runs an art gallery noted for its installation of smoking trash cans that make weird noises when their lids are lifted. Alas, no swan dive to the asphalt follows, meaning we’re forced to endure his subsequent saga of self-actualization, which involves a cast of characters each more grating than the last. Based on Peter Cameron’s novel and operating like the unholy spawn of Tadpole and Waiting for Forever, the twee-tastically titled Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You charts the oh-so-precious coming of age of a 17-year-old twerp named James (Toby Regbo), whose life of privilege and lack of responsibilities is so sad and difficult that, per genre cliché, he opens Roberto Faenza’s film perched on the edge of his apartment building rooftop, contemplating suicide.
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