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Piñero

2001★ 6.1 · 121h 43mDrama

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"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.

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Cast

Giancarlo Esposito
as Miguel Algarin

Benjamin Bratt
as Miguel Piñero

Mandy Patinkin
as Joseph Papp

Rita Moreno
as Miguel's Mother

Michael Irby
as Reinaldo Povod

Michael Wright
as Edgar Bowser

Talisa Soto
as Sugar

Panchito Gómez
as Acting Inmate

Robert Klein
as Doctor

Jaime Sánchez
as Miguel's Father

Lorraine Velez
as Tutu

Nelson Vasquez
as Tito Goya

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Release date: 2001-10-05

Runtime: 1h 43m

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Drama

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