Piñero

Piñero
2001-10-05
103
Released

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.



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Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt

Miguel Piñero
Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Espos

Miguel Algarin
Talisa Soto

Talisa Soto

Sugar
Nelson Vasquez

Nelson Vasquez

Tito Goya
Panchito Gómez

Panchito Gómez

Acting Inmate
Michael Wright

Michael Wright

Edgar Bowser

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