A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints on Imdb3 September 2006 (USA)
Crime | Drama
The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints.
Dianne Wiest
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Shia LaBeouf
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Melonie Diaz
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Julia Garro
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"A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" - Limited Edition DVD review.
added by newsBot"A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" The Limited Edition DVD Review.by Peter Dimako, Editor. Powerful and impressive, “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” marks one of the best directorial debuts one can find. Dito Montiel, writer of the book, adapts and helms this gritty, well-acted and touching story based on his own life. It’s been three years since the film won both the Directing Award (Dramatic) and the Special Jury Prize for the best ensemble performance. “Saints” follows the life of young and older Dito with Shia Labeouf and Robert Downey Jr. sharing the lead. It’s 2005 and Dieto (Downey Jr.) is asked to talk about his wonderful new book, taking viewers back to Astoria, Queens, N.Y., 1986 in one of the toughest neighborhoods (brought to life with ease by Montiel). Young Dito (Labeouf) and best friends Antonio (Channing Tatum) and Nerf (Peter Anthony Tambakis) go by their every-day existence with,
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Reminder: Channing Tatum's 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints' Re-Releases on DVD
added by newsBotI want to remind fans that you can now purchase the new special limited edition A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Steelbook Edition DVD on Amazon. The new DVD comes with a making of featurette, rehearsal scene, deleted scenes, alternate trailer, alternate opening, alternate endings and commentary with the director.
Writer and filmmaker Dito Montiel won the Directing Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival for 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints', which is a raw and impressionistic memoir about coming of age in ethnic, working-class Queens in the '80s. Shia Labeouf and Robert Downey Jr. play Dito at two stages of his life: as a sensitive teen dreaming of escaping the dead-end violence around him, and as an adult who returns to see his father (Chazz Palminteri) after a 15-year absence.
The film also focuses on Dito’s family, childhood sweetheart, and friends, who all must manage
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Fighting
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Directed by: Dito Montiel
Cast: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao
Running Time: (approx time, such as 1 hr 35 mins, 2 hrs 15 mins)
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Plot: A young man (Tatum), with the guidance of a street-scheme organizer (Howard), makes his way into the underground sport of all-out fighting.
Who’s It For? With its story about Fighting against the odds, this movie speaks mostly for teens - whether they are curious to see Tatum without his shirt off (again), or their interest is in watching him take part in human cock fights.
Expectations: Co-writer/director Dito Montiel made it onto the “indie” film scene with his personal debut A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. This film, mostly from the trailer, looked like a departure away from Saints’ gritty realism of NYC towards the slightly cleaner Hollywood version of it.
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Actors:
Channing Tatum as Shawn MacArthur: It
Nick Allen
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