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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2006
· Movie
· 104 min
C
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2347
- IMDb #2525
- Rotten Tomatoes #2080
- Metacritic #2011
- Letterboxd #2030
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2339
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2311
- Metacritic Critics #1755
- Metacritic Audience #2592
- Kinopoisk #3262
- AlloCiné #2221
- Trakt #3900
Every rating
66–76
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Trakt on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
Details
- Director
- Dito Montiel
- Writer
- Dito Montiel
- Released
- 29 September 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $516.1K
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 major awards won · 2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Sundance Special Jury Prize 2006 | Ensemble Cast | Winner | |
| Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic 2006 | Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic | Winner |
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Sundance Special Jury Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Ensemble Cast | Winner |
Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic
1 nomination, 1 won
| Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic | Winner |