A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
- IMDb link: 0473488
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (28,599 votes) Search
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Director: Dito Montiel
- Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf, Dianne Wiest, Melonie Diaz and others
- Release date: 13 Oct 2006
- Release year: 2006
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: coming of age, teenage boy, scot, gay man, autobiographical, younger version of character, period piece, scottish, astoria queens, subway
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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.
Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?
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