Piñero

• Movies
• 2001-10-05
• EN
• Released
• 2h 43m
• US
• Drama

• 6.2
• 10
• Trailer

Production

Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films

Storyline

"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.