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.

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  Leon Ichaso

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  Benjamin Bratt
  Miguel Piñero
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  Giancarlo Esposito
  Miguel Algarin
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  Talisa Soto
  Sugar
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  Nelson Vasquez
  Tito Goya
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  Panchito Gómez
  Acting Inmate
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  Michael Wright
  Edgar Bowser
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  Michael Irby
  Reinaldo Povod
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  Rita Moreno
  Miguel's Mother
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  Jaime Sánchez
  Miguel's Father
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  Rome Neal
  Jake
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  Mandy Patinkin
  Joseph Papp
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  Oscar A. Colon
  Bodega Man
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  Miriam Cruz
  Bodega Woman
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  Luis Caballero
  Shooting Gallery Man
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  Sophia Domoulin
  Shooting Gallery Woman
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  Robert Klein
  Doctor
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  Gilbert Callazo
  Miguel, as teen
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  Samuel Bruce Campbell
  Short Eyes Cop
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  Lorraine Velez
  Tutu
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  Michael Philip Del Rio
  Angry Father (scenes deleted)