Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

A thoughtful coming-of-age comedy-drama about a precocious, introspective teenager navigating identity, family disconnection, and the search for meaning on his own terms.

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...