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.

Keywords

  • Best Novels Adaptation
  • Best Novels Adaptation (home)
  • Deauville Film Festival
  • Deauville Film Festival: Highlight on the American Cinema (home)
  • New York, New York
  • Sundance Film Festival !
  • parenthood

Actors

  • Chazz Palminteri
  • Laila Liliana Garro
  • Eleonore Hendricks
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Shia LaBeouf
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Adam Scarimbolo
  • Melonie Diaz
  • Channing Tatum

Director

  • Dito Montiel

Drama

1h 36min

-16

EN

FR

United States
2006
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.

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.


Cast & Crew