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Piñero
Sign in to savePiñero is a 2001 American biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the title character. It was written and directed by the Cuban filmmaker, Leon Ichaso, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 31, 2001, and then received a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 13, 2001.
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6.1"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.
Cast
- 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
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
1,399 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
43%
Metacritic
40/100
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 6 wins & 4 nominations
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Wikidata facts
- FilmAffinity ID
- 956846
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- publication date
- 2001-12-13
- title
- Piñero
- review score
- 5.4/10
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Piñero is a 2001 American biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the title character. It was written and directed by the Cuban filmmaker, Leon Ichaso, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 31, 2001, and then received a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 13, 2001.
==Cast==