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Top cast Edit. Dito as Dito. Rosario Dawson Laurie as Laurie. Dianne Wiest Flori as Flori. Eleonore Hendricks Jenny as Jenny. Adam Scarimbolo Guiseppe as Guiseppe. Chazz Palminteri Monty as Monty. Tibor Feldman Teacher as Teacher. Dito Montiel. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Dito, a writer in L. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out.
A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again? Queens, New York, Sometimes the only way forward, is back. Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, sexuality, and drug use. Did you know Edit. After the first rejection, however, LaBeouf pushed for one more audition.
He came into the casting office, punched a hole in the wall, and convinced Montiel that he could bring the requisite amount of anger to the role.
Goofs In the s scenes on the subway, scanning the rooftops, you can see many cellphone towers. Quotes Dito : In the end - just like I said - I left everything, and everyone. Crazy credits At the very end of the credits, after the logo graveyard, there is a short bit with the real Monty. User reviews 98 Review. Top review. In this autobiographical coming-of-age piece, director Dito Montiel confronts his gritty past in Astoria, Queens.
He tells the doomed story of a teenage boy who spends his days in the seedy hot crime-infested backstreets of 's New York City to the day when he leaves for California and does not return until twenty years later, when his father Chazz Palminteri is sick. The retelling is impressive and absorbing. The good news is that it channels Spike Lee's criminal Queens street style with fast-paced local jargon that recycles 'fuck' in every sentence and snaps and crackles like kindling in a fireplace between its many thug-like characters.
Owing to its coming-of-age format, the story often stays wildly unfocused and you get the feeling many scenes do not serve a purpose other than to get us a feel for the venality with which things were run.
Together the four Queens teens harass girls, beat up rival gangs, shoplift and give attitude to on-lookers and this is undoubtedly when it feels the most like Spike Lee Lite. Saints patiently crafts tension at several points in the story, and it prefers climaxes to continuity as bad events snowball into criminal messes, deaths and the final abandonment by Dito.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is an interesting and compelling story, recreated with deft strokes by local Dito Montiel. Sting and Trudi Styler loved the script so much they went to great lengths to support the production, and Chazz Palminteri delayed the shooting of another film of his with money out of his own pocket just to be able to play the bruised father in the film.
These should serve as marks of its success and most of all the commitment with which its cast approached the film. Flagrant-Baronessa Nov 22,
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