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Piñero (2001)

Piñero (2001)

Drama
Release Date: 2001, October 5
Directors: Leon Ichaso
Countries: United States of America
Production: Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films
Cast: Michael Irby, Lorraine Velez, Benjamin Bratt, Rita Moreno, Giancarlo Esposito, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Klein, Jaime Sánchez, Nelson Vasquez, Talisa Soto, Oscar A. Colon, Rome Neal

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.