Piñero (movie)
- User score: 6.2
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Leon Ichaso
- Production companies: Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/5/2001
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
"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.
