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  1. Box office. $2 million [1] 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. Montiel wrote and directed the film adaptation, which was released in the United States in September ...

  2. Feb 26, 2007 · Perhaps the world doesn't need another story of kids 'coming up' hard on the streets of New York, but A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints hits harder than most. Robert Downey Jr stars as writer ...

  3. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: Directed by Dito Montiel. 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.

    • (27K)
    • Crime, Drama
    • Dito Montiel
    • 2006-10-13
  4. 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.

  5. First time director Dito Montiel's "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints" is a harsh autobiographical look back at his youth on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens in the mid 1980's. From the film's opening moments, Montiel introduces us to an intimate world of family and friendship that totally blindsided me by its greatness.

  6. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. Dito Montiel (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother (Dianne Wiest), asking him to return home and visit his ...

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    • Drama
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  8. It (TM)s a movie about the nature of time, about getting older and struggling to connect with who we once were. And above all, it (TM)s a story about taking a breather from the marathon of life to ...

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