Piñero
2001-10-05 | 103 minutes
Plot Summary
"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.
Cast
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Benjamin BrattMiguel Piñero
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Giancarlo EspositoMiguel Algarin
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Talisa SotoSugar
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Nelson VasquezTito Goya
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Panchito GómezActing Inmate
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Michael WrightEdgar Bowser
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Michael IrbyReinaldo Povod
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Rita MorenoMiguel's Mother
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Jaime SánchezMiguel's Father
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Mandy PatinkinJoseph Papp
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Oscar A. ColonBodega Man
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Miriam CruzBodega Woman
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Robert KleinDoctor
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Gilbert CallazoMiguel, as teen
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Samuel Bruce CampbellShort Eyes Cop
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Lorraine VelezTutu
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Michael Philip Del RioAngry Father (scenes deleted)
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