A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:11 pm
Dito Montiel's directorial debut and autobiographic script of coming of age in the hell-hole that is Astoria, Queens, NY (Jamaica, Queens is even worse believe it or not) in 1984. Very good story, excellent direction, won 2 major Sundance awards, shining reviews, blistering preformances by Chaz Palminteri and the younger actors (including Shia LaBeouf). I need to watch the alternate endings because major spoiler warning
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the thing that, kinda, ruined this excellent film, for me at least was seeing Eric Roberts as the older Antonio at the very end-if this is flashback after 20 years-then Antonio has aged at least 20 more years than everyone else...