Piñero
"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.
Release Date
October 5, 2001Runtime
103 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Leon IchasoWritten by
Leon IchasoLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rn1jbfASOd9cndsUr5Tt25jHsVZ.jpg)
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/y1yVEcSwJS8HtuQmOxk0vAvyGbH.jpg)
Benjamin Bratt
Miguel Piñero![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/lBvDQZjxhIGMbH61iHnqerpbqHc.jpg)
Giancarlo Esposito
Miguel Algarin![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tpEGbGgASne8m1iHzncuxdSLIkX.jpg)
Talisa Soto
Sugar![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eu42g5XCAgO7LOHxDBRd7U2zjJj.jpg)
Nelson Vasquez
Tito Goya![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nOPP5x1OzH16mZDbkSCOyeGg5qm.jpg)
Panchito Gómez
Acting Inmate![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5aS8v1BcVyXSeEl4sY2Hij5Rv5i.jpg)
Michael Wright
Edgar Bowser![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9cX8pKujyAlOyqGSAgvKNdA3qRj.jpg)
Michael Irby
Reinaldo Povod![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zB0M77jr7tmsmWHEr2bWO2Xq66L.jpg)
Rita Moreno
Miguel's Mother![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/jqqdVlOGVNokKXz6NTrlM7cuOOr.jpg)
Jaime Sánchez
Miguel's Father![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ykKV39t79fm6I88m8CjZFu0oBDU.jpg)
Mandy Patinkin
Joseph Papp![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/bYhYabXrdhOnQ98bgrKZLaKeJTM.jpg)
Miriam Cruz
Bodega Woman![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eZNiVyIMZSuyDmjIf7UaccpCJph.jpg)
Robert Klein
Doctor![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3xo0MfUyxi5tPm0Wf1bJ71oZXrq.jpg)
Gilbert Callazo
Miguel, as teen![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gJezUJHquojmLxHHkYAbeXziTZv.jpg)
Samuel Bruce Campbell
Short Eyes Cop![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/fkZXsPqv0QMCzwwbI0HG9ktBN9z.jpg)
Lorraine Velez
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Videos
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Piñero (PINERO) Trailer
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