Synopsis
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) is a crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Dito Montiel from his own memoir. Shia LaBeouf plays the teenage Dito; Robert Downey Jr. takes over as the grown man who left Queens and hasn't been back. Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson and Chazz Palminteri round out the cast.
Queens, New York, 1986. A group of friends — Dito, Antonio, Giuseppe and Mike — spend their summers navigating a neighbourhood where the line between youthful trouble and serious violence is crossed quickly and often. Some of them won't make it out. Years later, an older Dito gets a call from his mother: his father is sick, and it's time to come home. He's been avoiding it for a reason.
Montiel cuts between the two timelines in a way that feels instinctive rather than structural, and the film is most interesting when it refuses easy answers about why some people escape a street like that and others don't. Stream A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints online on iFILM.
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