Movie

Piñero (2001)

• October 5, 2001
• 1h 43m

• Drama

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.

Director

Leon Ichaso

Writers

Leon Ichaso

Starring

Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto