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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Released
13 October, 2006
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

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 and October 2006 and in Europe in March 2007. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Montiel with Shia LaBeouf as a younger Montiel. The film's narrative jumps frequently between 2005 and flashbacks from 1986 with characters occasionally addressing the viewer.

Director Dito Montiel
Produced by Clara Markowicz, Charlie Corwin, Trudie Styler, Travis Swords, Robert Downey Jr, Sting
Screenplay by Dito Montiel
Based on A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, by Dito Montiel
Starring Robert Downey Jr, Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Melonie Diaz, Eric Roberts, Channing Tatum, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest
Music Jonathan Elias
Cinematography Éric Gautier
Edited by Jake Pushinsky, Christopher Tellefsen
Production, company Madman Films
Distributed by First Look International
Released September 29, 2006 (limited), January 23, 2007
Running time 98 minutes
Country United States
Language English, Spanish
Box office $2,035,468
Netflix ID 70043813

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Writer Dito Montiel is urged by his mother to visit his sick father in Astoria, New York and soon he begins to remember his violent childhood and the deaths of his friends. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by writer/director Dito Montiel.

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The film takes place in 2005 and flashes back to 1986. The movie marks Dito Montiel's directorial debut. 

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Films set in the 1980s.

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