A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Released Date
October 13, 2006
Distributor
First Look International
Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$517,809 + $1,517,659 = $2,035,468
$517,809 + $1,517,659 = $2,035,468
About A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.
About
Writer Dito Montiel is urged by his mother to visit his sick father in Astoria, New York and soon he begins to remember his violent childhood and the deaths of his friends. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by writer/director Dito Montiel.
Trivia
The film takes place in 2005 and flashes back to 1986. The movie marks Dito Montiel's directorial debut.