---
title: 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Dito Montiel'
released: '2006-01-20'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-guide-to-recognizing-your-saints-2006'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473488/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

2006 · 90 min · Drama, History, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

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, Queens, New York, during the 1980s.
Montiel wrote and directed the film adaptation, which was released in the United States in September 2006 and in Europe in March 2007. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Montiel with Shia LaBeouf as a younger Montiel.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Robert Downey Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-downey-jr), [Trudie Styler](https://cinepixo.com/people/trudie-styler), [Sting](https://cinepixo.com/people/sting)
- **Screenplay:** [Dito Montiel](https://cinepixo.com/people/dito-montiel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jonathan Elias](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-elias)
- **Director of Photography:** [Éric Gautier](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-gautier)
- **Editor:** [Christopher Tellefsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-tellefsen)
- **Director:** [Dito Montiel](https://cinepixo.com/people/dito-montiel)

## Cast

- [Shia LaBeouf](https://cinepixo.com/people/shia-labeouf)
- [Melonie Diaz](https://cinepixo.com/people/melonie-diaz)
- [Martin Compston](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-compston)
- [Eleonore Hendricks](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleonore-hendricks)
- [Eric Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-roberts)
- [Olga Merediz](https://cinepixo.com/people/olga-merediz)
- [Federico Castelluccio](https://cinepixo.com/people/federico-castelluccio)
- [Peter Anthony Tambakis](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-anthony-tambakis)
- [Rosario Dawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosario-dawson)
- [Chazz Palminteri](https://cinepixo.com/people/chazz-palminteri)
- [Dianne Wiest](https://cinepixo.com/people/dianne-wiest)
- [Scott Michael Campbell](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-michael-campbell)
- [Channing Tatum](https://cinepixo.com/people/channing-tatum)
- [Robert Downey Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-downey-jr)
- [Anthony DeSando](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-desando)

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