A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson and Shia LaBeouf. It is based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
Montiel also wrote and directed the film adaptation, which was released in the United States in 2006, in the UK and Europe on 21 March 2007 and in Italy on 9 March 2...
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson and Shia LaBeouf. It is based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
Montiel also wrote and directed the film adaptation, which was released in the United States in 2006, in the UK and Europe on 21 March 2007 and in Italy on 9 March 2007. The DVD version of the film was released on 20 February 2007 in the United States.
The film is partly set in the present, but mainly in flashbacks in the 1980s. The latter parts are filmed with shaky camera with short shots.
Dito (Robert Downey Jr.) is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother and his friend Nerf, Dito visits his childhood home, Astoria, New York because his father has suddenly become very ill. The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks with Dito's memories in...
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