Piñero
- Released on
- Runtime
- 103 mins
"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.
"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.
Cast
- 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
Director
- Leon Ichaso
Producers
- John Penotti
- Fisher Stevens
- Tim Williams
