A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

“Sometimes the only way to move forward is to go back.”

A phone call from his mother pulls Dito (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful writer, back to Queens to see the father he left behind. The neighborhood where he grew up in the 1980s, with friends like Antonio (Channing Tatum), comes back to him in pieces, and Dito Montiel adapts his own memoir for the screen. Young Dito (Shia LaBeouf) and his mother (Dianne Wiest) hold the film's most tender ground, a bond the years away have not loosened.