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Jun 27, 2020 · A guide to recognizing your saints. by. Montiel, Dito. Publication date. 2006. Topics. Montiel, Dito, Gutterboy (Musical group), Models (Persons) -- United States -- Biography, Musicians -- United States -- Biography, Authors, American -- Biography, New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. Publisher.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author, director, and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is based on director Dito Montiel's youth during the mid-eighties in the tough neighbourhood of Astoria, Queens. All his old friends have ended up dead, as junkies, or in prison; Dito is the proverbial man who got out. For him, the ‘saints’ are the folks he remembers, the ones he left behind.
Oct 13, 2006 · With Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz. 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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Dito Montiel
- 2006-10-13
Aug 9, 2002 · This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him: Dito's father, Antonio "our insane warrior hero," Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker ...
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- Paperback
- Dito Montiel
Dito Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens and in the underground and punk cultures of Manhattan. His rough, thrilling, and quintessentially American story is bookmarked by the flawed and desperate Saints that guide him, including Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, and Allen Ginsberg.
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. Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill.
