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Piñero

6.2 103 mins Drama   2001
Burnside Entertainment   Lower East Side Films   GreeneStreet Films  
Director(s): Leon Ichaso

"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.

Casts of Piñero

Benjamin Bratt

as Miguel Piñero

Giancarlo Esposito

as Miguel Algarin

Talisa Soto

as Sugar

Nelson Vasquez

as Tito Goya

Panchito Gómez

as Acting Inmate

Michael Wright

as Edgar Bowser

Michael Irby

as Reinaldo Povod

Rita Moreno

as Miguel's Mother

Jaime Sánchez

as Miguel's Father

Rome Neal

as Jake

Mandy Patinkin

as Joseph Papp

Oscar A. Colon

as Bodega Man

Miriam Cruz

as Bodega Woman

Luis Caballero

as Shooting Gallery Man

Sophia Domoulin

as Shooting Gallery Woman

Robert Klein

as Doctor

Gilbert Callazo

as Miguel, as teen

Samuel Bruce Campbell

as Short Eyes Cop

Lorraine Velez

as Tutu

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