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Piñero (2001)
Directed by Leon Ichaso
Overview
“Piñero” tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero’s prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
Rated R | Length 103 minutes
Actors
Benjamin Bratt | Giancarlo Esposito | Talisa Soto | Nelson Vasquez | Panchito Gómez | Michael Wright | Michael Irby | Rita Moreno | Jaime Sánchez | Rome Neal | Mandy Patinkin | Oscar A. Colon | Miriam Cruz | Luis Caballero | Sophia Domoulin | Robert Klein | Gilbert Callazo | Samuel Bruce Campbell | Lorraine Velez