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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints   2006         R, 98 min. Genre: Drama Director: Dito Montiel   Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Eric Roberts, Melonie Diaz, Martin Compston, Adam Scarimbolo, Julia Garro, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Scott Michael Campbell   Dito Montiel's autobiographical story begins in the present when his suffering mother (Dianne Wiest) calls him to come home because his father (Chazz Palminteri) is dying. Now a successful L.A. writer, Dito returns home to Astoria, Queens, NY, where he grew up in the mid-1980s amidst violence and drugs and left for what he believed would be a better world outside. Dito faces those who influenced his life, and the story unfolds of how Dito believes he has been saved from their fate by his saints. Cast Robert Downey Jr. Dito Shia LaBeouf Young Dito Rosario Dawson Laurie Chazz Palminteri Monty Dianne Wiest Flori Channing Tatum Antonio Eric Roberts Older Antonio Melonie Diaz Young Laurie Martin Compston Mike O`Shea Adam Scarimbolo Giuseppe Julia Garro Diane Honeyman Peter Anthony Tambakis Young Nerf Scott Michael Campbell Nerf