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Piñero

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Calorie Rating: 145
Released: 2001-10-05
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Studios: Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films,


"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 / Directors

Leon Ichaso
Director


Cast

Benjamin Bratt
Character: Miguel Piñero
Giancarlo Esposito
Character: Miguel Algarin
Talisa Soto
Character: Sugar

Nelson Vasquez
Character: Tito Goya
Panchito Gómez
Character: Acting Inmate
Michael Wright
Character: Edgar Bowser

Michael Irby
Character: Reinaldo Povod
Rita Moreno
Character: Miguel's Mother
Jaime Sánchez
Character: Miguel's Father

Rome Neal
Character: Jake
Mandy Patinkin
Character: Joseph Papp
Oscar A. Colon
Character: Bodega Man

Miriam Cruz
Character: Bodega Woman
Luis Caballero
Character: Shooting Gallery Man
Sophia Domoulin
Character: Shooting Gallery Woman

Robert Klein
Character: Doctor
Gilbert Callazo
Character: Miguel, as teen
Samuel Bruce Campbell
Character: Short Eyes Cop

Lorraine Velez
Character: Tutu


Production and Crew

Ines Mongil-Echandi
Production Manager
Jamie Gordon
Co-Producer

Glen Trotiner
Associate Producer

Kathy DeMarco
Co-Executive Producer
Claudio Chea
Director of Photography

Bradley Yonover
Executive Producer
Caroline Jaczko
Line Producer
Lisa Rhoden
Associate Producer

John Leguizamo
Co-Executive Producer