“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

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Title: Piñero

Release Date: 2001

Genres: Biography, Drama

Directors: Ichaso, Leon

Actors:
• Bratt, Benjamin as Miguel Piñero
• Esposito, Giancarlo as Miguel Algarin
• Soto, Talisa as Sugar
• Vasquez, Nelson as Tito Goya
• Irby, Michael as Reinaldo Povod
• Wright, Michael as Edgar
• Moreno, Rita as Miguel’’s Mother
• Sánchez, Jaime as Miguel’’s Father
• Neal, Rome as Jake
• Patinkin, Mandy as Joseph Papp
• Colon, Oscar A. as Bodega Man
• Cruz, Miriam as Bodega Woman
• Caballero, Luis as Shooting Gallery Man
• Rodriguez, Al D. as Cuqui
• Domoulin, Sophia as Shooting Gallery Woman

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