
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) on Netflix
Dito, a writer in Los Angeles, returns to Astoria, Queens after fifteen years away when his father falls ill. Friends from the summer of 1986 come back to him.
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Plot summary
In Los Angeles, Dito has become a successful writer, far from the Queens streets where he grew up. A call from his mother Flori brings him back to Astoria, where his father, Monty, is ill, and his friend Nerf urges the visit; the two talk in a parked car. Dito also stops at the window of his childhood sweetheart, Laurie, now a mother. The trip stirs up the summer of 1986, when Dito was a teenager. His friends were Antonio, Antonio's younger brother Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike, a Scottish boy who wanted to be a musician and planned to take a bus to California with Dito.
Cast
Robert Downey Jr.as Dito
Shia LaBeoufas Young Dito
Chazz Palminterias Monty
Dianne Wiestas Flori
Channing Tatumas Young Antonio
Melonie Diazas Young Laurie
Martin Compstonas Mike O'Shea
Eric Robertsas Antonio
Rosario Dawsonas Laurie
Olga Meredizas Aunt Mary
Adam Scarimboloas Guiseppe
Laila Liliana Garroas Diane (as Julia Garro)
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Peter Anthony Tambakisas Young Nerf (as Peter Tambakis)
Scott Michael Campbellas Nerf
Anthony DeSandoas Frank the Dog Walker
Eleonore Hendricksas Jenny
Tibor Feldmanas Teacher
- Steve Payneas Beach Chair Guy (as Steven Payne)
- Anthony Tiradoas Street Corner Puerto Rican (credit only)
- Erick Rosadoas Puerto Rican Van Driver
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Shia LaBeouf auditioned for young Dito by wrecking Dito Montiel's office, putting a hole through the wall and acting as crazy as he could, after Montiel first refused to see him because he knew him only as the "Disney guy."
SPOILER
The subway-track death the film gives Giuseppe was inspired by a kid named Billy, killed while "riding" trains, while the real Giuseppe Ruggeria is a career criminal who was deported to Milan.- The Scottish would-be musician Mike is a composite of a man named Mike O'Shea, a hash-smoking kid named Ray and Angelo Ruggeria, a younger brother of Antonio who was later murdered; the real Mike O'Shea is Irish, alive, married and living in Essex, England.




















