This Crime-Gangster drama with autobiographical elements was released on September 29th 2006,
directed by Dito Montiel and lasts 96 minutes.
In Short: A boy from Astoria, a section of the borough
of Queens in New York City. watches the friends around him die on drugs and go to prison.
Later on he believes that he was saved from their fate by his "saints".
The author-director himself is behind the camera in this movie to film his own memoirs.
Adult Montiel’s (Robert Downey Jr..)
emotional return to his old neighborhood in NYC after 15-years, a
nd his younger self (Shia LaBeouf) making the move to Los Angeles in 1986.
The Montiel Downey plays, is a successful author who comes home after being informed about his father’s
(Chazz Palminteri) illness. LeBouf’s teenage Montiel is a young boy who
who has trouble with his gang of friends, falls in love with Laurie
(Rosario Dawson), and dreams of escaping the city with his friend Mike (Martin Compston).
The movie unfolds in 1986 Queens and Channing Tatum plays the role of Montiel’s violent
young friend Antonio.
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