A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film based on the memoir of the same name by author and director Dito Montiel. The story revolves around Dito Montiel, a successful writer, who returns to his childhood home in Astoria, New York after receiving news of his father's illness. As he visits, he reminisces about his tumultuous upbringing in a remarkable and often turbulent 1980s Queens neighborhood, accompanied by his friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf, and Mike.