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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.
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.
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. Coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
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- Crime, Drama
- Dito Montiel
- 2006-10-13
Sep 29, 2006 · A simmering, racially-tinged feud with a gang from another neighborhood threatens to explode into serious violence. The boisterous, antisocial behavior of the young men Dito hangs around with ...
- Dito Montiel
Feb 26, 2007 · Tender as it is brutal, Saints touches rarely scaled heights. A Guide To Recognising Your Saints is released in UK cinemas on Friday 2nd March 2007.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. In this award-winning film, a boy growing up in Astoria, New York in the 1980s watches as his friends and acquaintances die, go to prison or ruin their lives with drug use.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a lively, powerful coming-of-age tale with winning performances and sharp direction from first-timer Dito Montiel. Read Critics...
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- Drama
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