A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints(Movie, 2006)

Name: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2006
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 3.3

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 44min | Genres: Crime, Drama

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 129 votes)

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 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 (filmed largely with shaky camera with short shots) with characters occasionally addressing the viewer. ()

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Awards & Nominations for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Directing Award Dramatic Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast

About A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.

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A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints - Official Trailer(Trailer, 1:42)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: Original Media, Belladonna Productions, Xingu Films, Metropolitan Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 23 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 03/13/2008 (World premiere: 09/29/2006)

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Melonie Diaz, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Eric Roberts, Federico Castelluccio, Martin Compston, Eleonore Hendricks, Scott Michael Campbell, Olga Merediz, Peter Anthony Tambakis

Director: Dito Montiel

Producer: Trudie Styler, Robert Downey Jr., Sting

Screenwriter: Dito Montiel

Director of Photography: Éric Gautier

Composer: Jonathan Elias

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Kids - In den Straßen New Yorks"

"Guida per riconoscere i tuoi Santi"

Keywords: childhood, retrospective, author, queens, new york city

Revenue: 516,139 USD

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