PiñeroMark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Year | 2001 |
Country | USA |
Premiere | |
Budget | $0 |
Box | in world | $275 171 | USA | $275 171 | In other countries | $0 |
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DVD | 16.07.2002 |
Duration | 01:30 |
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.