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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 5, 2001
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Benjamin Bratt,Giancarlo Esposito,Talisa Soto,Nelson Vasquez,Panchito Gómez,Michael Wright,Michael Irby,Rita Moreno,Jaime Sánchez,Rome Nealand 11 more
- Director
- Leon Ichaso
- Writer
- Leon Ichaso
- Cinematography
- Claudio Chea
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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