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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

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Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. There he finds redemption by facing the 'saints' who have influenced his life.

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Actors:

Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz, Laila Liliana Garro, Eleonore Hendricks, Adam Scarimbolo, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Channing Tatum, Anthony Tirado, Erick Rosado, ...»

Director:

Dito Montiel

Country:

United States

Release:

2006

IMDb:

6.9

Quality:

Duration:

100 min

KEYWORDS:

#A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints #Dito Montiel #Robert Downey Jr. #Rosario Dawson #Shia LaBeouf

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ACTORS OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Dianne Wiest

28 March 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Robert Downey Jr.

4 April 1965, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Shia LaBeouf

11 June 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA

Melonie Diaz

25 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA

Laila Liliana Garro

Eleonore Hendricks

Adam Scarimbolo

11 August 1983, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Peter Anthony Tambakis

15 February 1984

Channing Tatum

26 April 1980, Cullman, Alabama, USA

15 May 1952, New York City, New York, USA

Tibor Feldman

25 April 1947

Martin Compston

8 May 1984, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

Marc Castle

Steven Randazzo

George DiCenzo

21 April 1940, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Olga Merediz

15 February 1956, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Teresa Kelsey

Sammy Rhee

Jermel Wilson

23 March 1982, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA

Michael Rivera

David Castro

7 February 1996, Long Island, New York, USA

Federico Castelluccio

29 April 1964, Naples, Campania, Italy

Anthony DeSando

4 December 1965, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Scott Michael Campbell

14 August 1971, Missoula, Montana, USA

Rosario Dawson

9 May 1979, New York City, New York, USA

18 April 1956, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Chance Kelly

28 January 1967, USA

Angela Frye

10 April 1963, New York City, New York, USA

7 July 1978, Pennsylvania, USA

Mike Struck

E. Austin Valentine

DIRECTORS OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Dito Montiel

26 July 1965, New York City, New York, USA

CREATORS OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Dito Montiel

26 July 1965, New York City, New York, USA

HEROES OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Flori

Played by: Dianne Wiest

Dito

Played by: Robert Downey Jr.

Laurie

Played by: Melonie Diaz

Diane

Played by: Laila Liliana Garro

Jenny

Played by: Eleonore Hendricks

Guiseppe

Played by: Adam Scarimbolo

Nerf

Played by: Peter Anthony Tambakis

Young Antonio

Played by: Channing Tatum

Street Corner Puerto Rican

Played by: Anthony Tirado

Puerto Rican Van Driver

Played by: Erick Rosado

Beach Chair Guy

Played by: Steve Payne

Monty

Played by: Chazz Palminteri

Teacher

Played by: Tibor Feldman

Mike O'Shea

Played by: Martin Compston

Drunken Man in Subway

Played by: Marc Castle

Token Clerk

Played by: Steven Randazzo

Uncle George

Played by: George DiCenzo

Aunt Mary

Played by: Olga Merediz

Newscaster

Played by: Teresa Kelsey

Korean Shop Owner

Played by: Sammy Rhee

Yup Yup

Played by: Jermel Wilson

Reaper

Played by: Michael Rivera

Reaper's Little Brother

Played by: David Castro

Antonio's Father

Played by: Federico Castelluccio

Frank the Dog Walker

Played by: Anthony DeSando

Laurie's Son

Played by: Kyle Benitez

Old Woman

Played by: Iraida Polanco

Queensbridge Bodega Man

Played by: Gilbert Cruz

Antonio

Played by: Eric Roberts

Prison Guard

Played by: Chance Kelly

CRITICS OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Film4

Superb performances and a gripping retrospective plotline make this tough cookie an entertaining one, even if its adult story strand is weighed down with vagaries.

February 27, 2008

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Time Out

The plot itself might not break much new ground, but the telling, by both cast and crew, makes this a memoir to remember.

February 28, 2007

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Empire Magazine Australasia

Montiel's honey coated Queens of the mid-'80s is rich with the violence and carnality of teenagers, and the performances of LaBeouf (as the young Dito) and Channing Tatum (as his Stanley Kowalski-like grunt friend, Antonio) are raw pleasures.

November 07, 2012

Arizona Republic

Like an O'Neill play, its virtues are not in well-constructed ideas but in the emotional catharses it wrings out of its audience.

October 26, 2006

BrandonFibbs.com

It is its very autobiographical roots that make Saints an emotional wallop, a raw, authentic work that is, at its defiant core, violently and unrestrainedly alive.

February 28, 2008

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ColeSmithey.com

Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical 2001 novel into a vivid slice-of-life drama from the Jim Carroll school of disaffected coming-of-age New York journalism.

April 24, 2009

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BBC.com

It positively crackles with energy, featuring startlingly raw performances from a cast that also includes Shia LaBeouf as the young Dito. And if it looks ragged around the edges, that's as it should be.

July 31, 2007

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Film Freak Central

I love the scenes with young people in the middle of a hot New York summer, talking to one another like panthers circling.

September 06, 2007

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Denver Post

Though A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is not a great movie, I prefer its street-grit version of adolescent desperation to the arch, mannered tone of Running With Scissors.

October 27, 2006

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Chicago Reader

Given all the filmed memory pieces about screaming, violent Italian-American families in New York boroughs, I'm not especially thrilled by even a well-made example.

February 27, 2008

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Toronto Star

It takes a while to recognize these saints, but the effort is worth it.

November 17, 2006

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Globe and Mail

The movie never answers the question of why, exactly, the audience should care about these characters.

November 17, 2006

GALLERY OF "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"