A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

Scenemaker Dito Montiel's rough, grating memoir of growing up in a poor, violent section of Astoria, Queens, in the mid-1980s features a few too many arty flourishes, but also packs a raw power that's hard to shake. It begins in the present, as Dito's downtrodden mother, Flori (Dianne Wiest), leaves a quietly desperate message on his answering machine: Dito's father, tough, overbearing Monty (Chazz Palminteri) is sick and refuses to see a doctor, but he might listen to his wayward son. Dito (Robert Downey, Jr.), now a successful, Los Angeles based writer, reluctantly comes home and reconnects with the people and places that made him what he is in a series of ever-lon...