Ten Thousand Saints is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.

In December 1987, Jude and his best friend, Teddy, spend their time doing drugs and dreaming about moving to New York City to escape their small home town.

Jude’s permissive hippy father, Les, lives in New York City where he grows and sells marijuana.

Eliza finds Teddy’s half-brother in Alphabet City, Johnny, and discovers he is not only straight edge but also a Hare Krishna devotee.

Since Eliza is under 18 and her mother refuses to sign for her to be legally married, the two have a marriage ceremony in the Hare Krishna temple.

They borrow Les' van and, because her mother is still against the pregnancy, take Eliza to stay with Harriet while Johnny's band Army of One goes on tour.

Eliza is outraged feeling betrayed because she wants to raise the baby and runs out of the apartment into the middle of the Tompkins Square Park Riots where she goes into labor.

As the film ends, Johnny throws Teddy’s ashes into the river with Rooster beside him, while Jude narrates from ten years later about how Eliza is in Brooklyn starting her own family and how he too is going to be a father, hinting that they may still be together.

She remarked, "I read the book and I loved how human the characters were and how flawed, yet well-meaning, they were, which I think is a very truthful thing about most people.

It was this time when New York was really scruffy and dangerous, and there was crime, violence, crack, and AIDS – a lot of very horrible things, but also excitement and creative opportunity.

I think there’s an element of that in straight edge, which became very popular around that time with young people who were rebelling against what they thought was screwing up their parents.

Emile Hirsch, Julianne Nicholson, Emily Mortimer and Nadia Alexander were cast in early 2014.