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- BFI identifier720211
- Date2006 (Copyright)
2006-02-23 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama. Set mainly in the Astoria neighbourhood of Queens, New York in the mid-1980s. Dito and his friends hang out, get stoned, and exchange crude, sexual taunts with the equally tough neighbourhood girls. As the years pass by, his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison and he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- Credits
- CastRobert Downey Jr (Dito Montiel)
Shia Labeouf (young Dito Montiel)
Chazz Palminteri (Monty Montiel)
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Title
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Original)
A Guide to Recognising Your Saints (Help search)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/6FC2-EA57-AD13-C4DB-A723-YCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- ArticlesEmpire n218 August 2007 - DVD ReviewFilmmaker v14 n3 Spring 2006 - ArticlePremiere v20 n1 September 2006 - ReviewFilmmaker v14 n4 Summer 2006 - Interviewview all
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Work - 720211 - 2006 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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