Title: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Year: 2006
Actors : Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf, Dianne Wiest, Melonie Diaz
Plot: Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?