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Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)

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Release Date: September 29, 2006 (LA/NY)
On DVD: February 20, 2007
Genre: Drama, Crime
Running Time: 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, sexuality and drug use.
Director: Dito Montiel
Writer: Dito Montiel
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Eric Roberts

"A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" 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 to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. Read more

Movie Review

Grade: B- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a quietly powerful film that doesn't break any new limits but does offer some fine performances from some up-and-coming stars and a quietly sad story set in Queens.

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