Piñero
Piñero
Release: 2001-10-05
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 5.9
Drama
"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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Burnside Entertainment
Lower East Side Films
GreeneStreet Films
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Michael Irby
as Reinaldo Povod
Robert Klein
as Doctor
Giancarlo Esposito
as Miguel Algarin
Jaime Sánchez
as Miguel's Father
Mandy Patinkin
as Joseph Papp
Oscar A. Colon
as Bodega Man
Benjamin Bratt
as Miguel Piñero
Samuel Bruce Campbell
as Short Eyes Cop
Talisa Soto
as Sugar
Nelson Vasquez
as Tito Goya
Michael Wright
as Edgar Bowser
Rita Moreno
as Miguel's Mother
Gilbert Callazo
as Miguel, as teen
Lorraine Velez
as Tutu
Panchito Gómez
as Acting Inmate
