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Piñero
2001, Oct 05
1h 43m
"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.
Directed by
Leon Ichaso
Written by
Leon Ichaso
Giancarlo Esposito
Miguel Algarin
John Leguizamo
Mandy Patinkin
Joseph Papp
Fisher Stevens
Benjamin Bratt
Miguel Piñero
Michael Irby
Reinaldo Povod
Rita Moreno
Miguel's Mother
Michael Wright
Edgar Bowser
Talisa Soto
Sugar
Robert Klein
Doctor
Panchito Gómez
Acting Inmate
Jaime Sánchez
Miguel's Father
Lorraine Velez
Tutu
Nelson Vasquez
Tito Goya
Oscar A. Colon
Bodega Man
Gilbert Callazo
Miguel, as teen
Samuel Bruce Campbell
Short Eyes Cop
Rome Neal
Jake
Miriam Cruz
Bodega Woman
Luis Caballero
Shooting Gallery Man
Sophia Domoulin
Shooting Gallery Woman
Michael Philip Del Rio
Angry Father (scenes deleted)
Lisa Rhoden
Kip Hanrahan
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