Piñero
movie
Released October 05, 2001
Genres:
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.
Cast
Benjamin Bratt
as
Miguel Piñero
Giancarlo Esposito
as
Miguel Algarin
Talisa Soto
as
Sugar
Nelson Vasquez
as
Tito Goya
Panchito Gómez
as
Acting Inmate
Michael Wright
as
Edgar Bowser
Michael Irby
as
Reinaldo Povod
Rita Moreno
as
Miguel's Mother
Jaime Sánchez
as
Miguel's Father
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Rome Neal
as
Jake
Mandy Patinkin
as
Joseph Papp
Oscar A. Colon
as
Bodega Man
Crew
Leon Ichaso
as
Director
Leon Ichaso
as
Writer
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Ines Mongil-Echandi
as
Production Manager
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Claudio Chea
as
Director of Photography
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Kathy DeMarco
as
Co-Executive Producer
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Lisa Rhoden
as
Associate Producer
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Kip Hanrahan
as
Music
John Leguizamo
as
Co-Executive Producer
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Jamie Gordon
as
Co-Producer
Fisher Stevens
as
Producer
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Bradley Yonover
as
Executive Producer
David Tedeschi
as
Editor