A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2006 • Drama/Crime • Rated R • 98 Minutes
| In Theaters | September 29, 2006 | |||
| On 4K UHD | Not Available | |||
| On Blu-ray | December 17, 2019 | |||
| On DVD | February 20, 2007 | |||
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the winner of both the Dramatic Directing Award and a Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Performance at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. A coming-of-age drama about writer/director Dito Montiel's youth, the film captures the mid-1980s in the toughest neighborhood of Astoria, Queens.
Dito (Robert Downey Jr.), called home after 15 years because his father (Chazz Palminteri) is ill, encounters old friends -- the ones he lost, the ones he left behind the ones he can't help but remember. These are Dito's "saints".
An honest account of a bittersweet return to a neighborhood where relationships can never be what they once were, Dito's story is about coming to terms with a father's rage and a father's love.
Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, sexuality, and drug use.
Box office gross: $0.4 million. View box office history.
Released by Alchemy. See more credits.