"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.
as Miguel Piñero
as Miguel Algarin
as Sugar
as Tito Goya
as Acting Inmate
as Edgar Bowser
as Reinaldo Povod
as Miguel's Mother
as Miguel's Father
as Jake
as Joseph Papp
as Bodega Man
as Bodega Woman
as Shooting Gallery Man
as Shooting Gallery Woman
as Doctor
as Miguel, as teen
as Short Eyes Cop
as Tutu
as Angry Father (scenes deleted)
