- Release Date: 2006
- Runtime: 100 min
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Starring: Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz ... see all
- Director: Dito Montiel
- Plot: The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes... Read more
User Reviews
A guide to recognizing good and bad elements
Jul 07, 2008
edwin.nasr - yahoo.com
Jul 07, 2008edwin.nasr - yahoo.com
A guide to recognizing your saints is so clumsy and amateur it would need a whole bunch of writers,directors and producers to save it from drowning.Yet,it's part of the charm of this indie flick.Excellent performances,yet stupid sotry that goes nowhere,good direction(though... Full review
A Film That Recognizes Talent
Jun 06, 2008
dougchercher - yahoo.com
Jun 06, 2008dougchercher - yahoo.com
Someone give Robert Downey Jr.'s agent a raise! RD's recent roles have brilliantly showcased his talents and none to the degree that A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints does. Not since Coppola's The Outsiders has a film so poignantly captured the... Full review
Wow
Apr 18, 2008
super_mannurse - yahoo.com
Apr 18, 2008super_mannurse - yahoo.com
I thought the movie was excellent. The acting and directing of the movie was great. It is always nice to see a movie that doesn't follow the mainstream. LaBouf was excellent and I think was perfect for the role.... Full review
The Problem With True Stories
Mar 20, 2008
absolution_pt - yahoo.com
Mar 20, 2008absolution_pt - yahoo.com
You get your loose endings. With these many fine actors it was a shame that this was all you had to work on. I know you should be true to the story, but you could always start from it and end... Full review
Who Did The Casting?
Jan 24, 2008
sweetvyc - yahoo.com
Jan 24, 2008sweetvyc - yahoo.com
This movie was all over the place, but what truly got me was the casting. It made absolutely no sense to me... OK, when the movie started the kids were like 13 at the MOST. Flash forward 15 YEARS & you... Full review
i want my hour and half back!!
Dec 24, 2007
jah0787 - yahoo.com
Dec 24, 2007jah0787 - yahoo.com
First part of the movie grabs your attention but falls apart from there on. I really thought this movie was going be one of those films that will always stay with you but i rather forget it! Though it wasted my... Full review
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
Aug 08, 2007
tburke85 - yahoo.com
Aug 08, 2007tburke85 - yahoo.com
I thought this film was decent overall. The soundtrack matched well worth the look and feel of the movie. I thought Robert Downey Jr. would've been in it more then he was. But that's ok. Shia LaBeuf does however deliver an... Full review
"Terabithia" is brought to the big screen !!!
Jul 31, 2007
anastasia_ew - yahoo.com
Jul 31, 2007anastasia_ew - yahoo.com
Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media bring to live one of the most heartwarming movies of 2007."Bridge To Terabithia" is about a about a young boy named Jess, who feels like an outsider at school and specially at home. But soon... Full review
Who is this guy?!
Jul 03, 2007
ltlfoxx - yahoo.com
Jul 03, 2007ltlfoxx - yahoo.com
He seems to not have his facts straight! I grew up with all of the characters in this horrible movie and the way he is depicting them is dead wrong! He obviously did not bother to do his research; nor talk... Full review
The Best
Jul 03, 2007
uncgsprstar - yahoo.com
Jul 03, 2007uncgsprstar - yahoo.com
This was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. The acting is amazing. It is a beautiful movie.... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Apr 28, 2009The Boston Phoenix
he tries to obscure the hackneyed plot with elaborate street settings, chaotic fight scenes, and gratuitous helicopter shots.....the story builds to the predictable big-money grudge match, but the real battle is between Montiel and his own soulless script.... ... Full Review
| Apr 24, 2009montrealgazette.com
he brings every faded fibre to the fore in this ambitiously gritty fight movie.....Without top-notch fight sequences, the movie fails to deliver what it promises in its own title....becomes little more than a well-intentioned drama without teeth or purpose.....it's a frustrating film experience to sit and wait for a knock-down round of macho scrapping....Fighting has the right plot, but without the blood.... ... Full Review
| Feb 03, 2009Pop Culture Zoo, OR
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is such a stunning and extraordinarily well made film....The thing that really makes this film outstanding is the two actors who play the two versions of Dito Montiel.....Really, though, everyone just excels in this film, especially improvising the dialogue to give a lot of it a very natural feel.....While these are interesting to see in order to relish the performances, I'm happy they were left out of the film..... ... Full Review
| Mar 02, 2007TotalFilm
these heartbreaking characters burn brightly within their snapshot of fearless youth.....Montiel knows how to create visceral cinema using arresting images and a nostalgic soundtrack.... ... Full Review
| Mar 02, 2007The Guardian
None the less, a worthwhile, intelligent picture..... ... Full Review
News
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
urbancinefile.com.au –
2009-05-24
SYNOPSIS: Dito Montiel (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful writer now living in Los Angeles, is summoned home to his poor burb of Astoria, in New York, 15 years after he fled, by his mother Flaurie (Dianne Wiest), when his father... ... Full Article
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2009-03-27
Recognize Your Saints, In Steel
cinemablend.com –
2009-01-25
Based on a memoir written by director and writer Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints tells of when he returns to his hometown of Astoria, New York after his father becomes seriously ill. ... Full Article
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2008-05-29
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