A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

  • Director: Dito Montiel
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: October 13, 2006
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Tus santos y tus demonios
  • "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints" is a crime film directed by Dito, starring Robert John Downey Jr. and Eric Roberts .
    The film tells the story of Tito, a well-known writer in Los Angeles , USA . After 15 years of separation from his family, he finally embarks on the road to home that he has been evading.
    The film is adapted from the personal autobiography of director Dito . The film won the 2006 63rd Venice International Film Festival Best New Director Award, Film Critics Week Unit Award, and won the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Jury Special Award and many other awards.

    Details

    • Release date October 13, 2006
    • Filming locations Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Belladonna Productions, Truly Original, Xingu Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $517,809

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $94,784

    Gross worldwide

    $2,035,468

    Movie reviews

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    • By Immanuel 2022-01-13 08:02:44

      Be careful there is a pile of shit on the street

      The story is trivial, the lens is trivial, and the emotions are trivial. Probably this is youth. I think that only those who are absent from youth have the time and patience to pick up these precious "trivialities" that we call. Therefore, there is no gimmick, no storytelling, no extraordinary director and screenwriting skills, and they are always full of nagging and irrelevant. Even within an hour and a half of the irritating lines, I watched the film patiently... When I was moved by a small...

    • By Letitia 2022-01-13 08:02:44

      Sorrow and tenderness

      What is youth? Probably countless people have countless different interpretations, dark depression or sunny, small fresh or heavy taste, mixed together and elongated, it will no longer become the category of youth, but the circumstances and choices of life.

      I now think of my ten generations of youth, and I don’t know why I always think of a swaying bus. I sat on it with a group of obscure passengers, passing through the crowds and bustling of the city, everyone’s eyes were empty, like...

    • By Kallie 2022-01-13 08:02:44

      Dito's Confession

      There is no escape from youth, no escape from life, no escape from time.
      My dear people, I leave everyone and everything alone; but you never leave me.
      When life is piled up in front of us like a pile of shit, the foul smell will tear everything through. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what life is like, whether it’s what we are experiencing and about to experience. In addition to being covered in dust, those who have experienced are still struggling to dig out the dusty and...

    • By Grayson 2022-01-13 08:02:44

      Saints Guide

      The era of the film is very strong, noisy, and in a dirty neighborhood environment, a few teenagers who are in the rebellious period live recklessly and violently. The protagonist Di Tuo is considered to be an ideal person among his peers. It is a pity that his surrounding environment and friends have caused him too much trouble, even if he has a loving father and a fairly good family environment. The confusion and restlessness of adolescence are after all the struggle to break through the...

    • By Gage 2022-01-13 08:02:44

      How do you face it

      A movie that has almost seen too many plots, the only difference is "I have left everything and all people, but none, none have left me."
      The movie produced in 2006 that touched me the most, just I am very dissatisfied with the cover poster, the Chinese name translation and the plot introduction of imdb.cn or other places. It is damn nonsense. In the
      end, I almost missed an important interview at the end of the movie.
      No original sound information was found . , I had nostalgia...

    User comments

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    • By Tyrel 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      I left everything and everyone, but no one, no one has ever left me. Poor...

    • By Anne 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      I don't know why this movie makes me cry many times. The first is the meeting of the original lover on the street corner after 15 years, saying "good to see u.". Then the accompanying dialogue that appears in trouble. Then there is the last meeting of good friends. After the precipitation of time, there is too much helplessness, pain, bitterness, and I don't know where to start. I just know that when i were young,"i left everything and...

    • By Hertha 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      Emotions expressed are...

    • By Emmitt 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      Youth is disordered and restless, and a lot of time can be...

    • By Fabiola 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      This kind of movie is so boring I can't watch it. Every one looks so fucked...

    Movie plot

    In the 1980s, a teenager who grew up in Queens, New York, when his friends died tragically, took drugs or went to jail, he gradually began to believe that God's power allowed him to survive.
    Based on Dito Montiel's own autobiography, the film describes the details of his growing up in New York. The film is based on the memoir of the same name and tells the story of Dito returning to the old community where he once lived and facing him...
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    Movie quotes

    • Young Antonio: I'm a fucking piece of shit. And that's who I am.

    • Laurie: You want it straight? 'Cause I'm the only fucking one who's gonna tell you for some fucking reason. You killed him. You killed your father when you left. Are you hearing me? You fucking killed him. You left a trail of blood when you left. So forget me, forget all this shit, forget it, alright? You killed your mother, and you killed your father. And for the past fucking 20 years, he's been dying - just waiting for you to come home. Say 'Daddy, you fucked up.' 'Daddy, I fucking hate your guts.' Daddy whatever the fuck you need to get out of your angsty little fucking head...

      Dito: Touch my head one more fucking time I'm gonna go nuts...

      Laurie: Go ahead, go fucking nuts. Go fucking nuts. Let it out. Stop fucking running away. You think you're a fucking man, that's just a fucking tail between your legs. Go home and take care of your mother. Go home and take care of your father. *That's* going to make you a fucking man. That's all you got left. 'Cause if you don't do that shit, it's too fucking late.

    • Laurie: [to Dito] You think you're a fuckin' man? That's just a tail between your legs.