First Look: A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
Distributor: First Look Pictures
Release Date: Sundance Film Festival 2006
Director: Dito Montiel
Screenwriter: Dito Montiel
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Eric Roberts, and Robert Downey, Jr.
Synopsis: This big screen adaptation of Dito Montiel’s 2003 memoir of the same title, directed by Montiel from his own screenplay, is sure to leave Sundance hailed as one of the great New York movies. Every actor in its sprawling ensemble, from Robert Downey Jr. (playing the present-day Montiel) to Chazz Palminteri (Dito’s father) to Rosario Dawson to Eric Roberts, gets with this movie to fulfill the promise of their early work. But it is Shia LaBeouf who will come away from Sundance a star once audiences see him go off in the subway, hang out with his friends and fall in love during one hot Queens summer, then draw the wrath of a street gang and hold his own opposite Palminteri as Dito decides to leave his home behind. As the filmmakers play with the ideas and expectations of time and memory, friendship and loyalty, family and responsibility, A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS becomes a classic, haunting and powerful coming-of-age story.
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