Piñero
2001"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.
Acted in
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
Rome Neal
as Jake
Mandy Patinkin
as Joseph Papp
Oscar A. Colon
as Bodega Man
Miriam Cruz
as Bodega Woman
Luis Caballero
as Shooting Gallery Man
Sophia Domoulin
as Shooting Gallery Woman
Robert Klein
as Doctor
Gilbert Callazo
as Miguel, as teen
Samuel Bruce Campbell
as Short Eyes Cop
Lorraine Velez
as Tutu