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A Guide to Recognising Your Saints Details

2006 Certificate 15 Certificate 15 (TBC)
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The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. Read more

Starring Robert Downey, Channing Tatum, Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri
Director Dito Montiel
Genres Drama

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A Guide to Recognising Your Saints

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints.

Starring Robert Downey, Channing Tatum, Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Rosario Dawson, Eric Roberts, Sandra Hernandez, Martin Compston, Robert Downey Jr, Diane West
Director Dito Montiel
Studio REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 15, Watch Online: Certificate 15 (TBC)
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Released DVD: 02 Jul 2007
Watch now: 30 Apr 2009
Production year: 2006
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  • Adapted from his own memoir, Dito Montiels loosely fictionalised account of his mid-80s adolescence in Astoria,... read more on Time Out

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  • 50 out of 78 people found this review helpful

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    A first for me

    i have been going to the movies now for almost 46 years and in all that time i have never walked out before a movies conclusion until last week when i went to a preview screening of this - i hesitate to call it film !

    I lasted 40 minutes watching this ill conceived , badly edited, pretentious pile of crap , 40 minutes of disjointed images,contiual swearing and profanities, i am no prude but i was mightily embarassed at this opus.

    Anyone who pays money to see this is crackers and dont rent it sit and watch paint drying its 1000% more entertaining.

    I am sorry if i have offended the arty farty reviewers who say this is a brilliant movie but they must have been drunk or on drugs when they sat through this

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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    Unfathomable

    This is a seriously pretentious film with no semblance of a recognisable plot, or direction. Do not waste your time on it.

      • A customer from Kent
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