Piñero
2001, Film, 103 min, Biography, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
"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.
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Directed by Leon Ichaso
Cast
- Benjamin Bratt as Miguel Piñero
- Giancarlo Esposito as Miguel Algarin
- Talisa Soto as Sugar
- Nelson Vasquez as Tito Goya
- Michael Wright as Edgar Bowser
- Michael Irby as Reinaldo Povod
- Rita Moreno as Miguel's Mother
- Jaime Sánchez as Miguel's Father
- Rome Neal as Jake
- Mandy Patinkin as Joseph Papp
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