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Synopsis. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is based on director Dito Montiel's youth during the mid-eighties in the tough neighbourhood of Astoria, Queens. All his old friends have ended up dead, as junkies, or in prison; Dito is the proverbial man who got out. For him, the ‘saints’ are the folks he remembers, the ones he left behind.
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.
Aug 9, 2002 · 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, Jimmy...
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Feb 9, 2024 · This coming of age drama is about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York, during the 1980s. His friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison, so he comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by so-called saints. As we said, Robert Downey Jr. is one of the members of the cast. He plays Dito.
Feb 11, 2016 · Dito Montiel takes us behind the scenes of his Sundance-winnning film, 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.' "I wasn’t setting out to tell my story or any memoir; I was trying to capture a feeling, an experience, a moment in time."
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.
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With Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz. Coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.
