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
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- 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)
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- 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.
