“Piñero” tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the 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.
Release Date: 12 April 2002Runtime: 94 min
Stars:
- Benjamin Bratt
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Jaime Sánchez
- Luis Caballero
- Mandy Patinkin
- Michael Irby
- Michael Wright
- Miriam Cruz
- Nelson Vasquez
- Oscar A. Colon
- Rita Moreno
- Robert Klein
- Rome Neal
- Sophia Domoulin
- Talisa Soto
Director: Leon Ichaso
