Picture HALF NELSON meets SHERRY BABY and you end up in the same world as A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS with a cast of tremendous actors led by powerful performances from Robert Downey Jr., Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest,along with stunning new actors led by the charismatic young actor, Channing Tatum, and the beautiful Rosario Dawson. The film is a bit of a tough ride at first, but once you connect with the anger of the characters and their journey, the audience is hooked into a film that is about recognizing friends and family who really care about you, and never leave you as the "Saints" we sometimes never recognize in our lives until perhaps it may be too late.
Dito Montiel has written and directed in SAINTS a story which is applicable across America today with angry young men and women who live in a hopeless morass of nothingness, but strive and dream of a better life beyond a Queens New York. The location reinforces the story and the characters needs, strengths, weaknesses and vulnerability. Dialog is also very strong and perfectly suits and embraces the characters desires and struggles. SAINTS makes you realize "where you came from, and where you are heading in life".
Dito Montiel has written and directed in SAINTS a story which is applicable across America today with angry young men and women who live in a hopeless morass of nothingness, but strive and dream of a better life beyond a Queens New York. The location reinforces the story and the characters needs, strengths, weaknesses and vulnerability. Dialog is also very strong and perfectly suits and embraces the characters desires and struggles. SAINTS makes you realize "where you came from, and where you are heading in life".