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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author, director, and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
Oct 13, 2006 · A coming-of-age drama based on the autobiography of writer Dito Montiel, who returns to his hometown in Queens, New York, after 15 years. The film features Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf and Channing Tatum as young and adult versions of the main characters.
- (27K)
- Crime, Drama
- Dito Montiel
- 2006-10-13
A coming-of-age drama based on the memoir of Dito Montiel, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Channing Tatum. The film explores the friendship, violence and loss of a group of boys growing up in Queens, N.Y.
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- Dito Montiel
- R
- Robert Downey Jr.
#AGuideToRecognizingYourSaints is a powerful coming of age story that has been aptly compared to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. Based on his bestselling mem...
- 2 min
- 44.8K
- Madman Films
This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him: Dito's father, Antonio "our insane warrior hero," Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker ...
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- Dito Montiel
A coming-of-age drama based on the author's book, about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York in the 1980s. The film follows his relationships with his friends, his girlfriend, his parents, and his own ambitions, as he faces violence, loss, and redemption.
A brilliant cast brings to life this coming-of-age drama about a young man (Shia LaBeouf) growing up in Astoria, New York in the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, addicted or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.
