Piñero [videorecording] / Miramax Films and GreenStreet Films presents a GreenStreet production in association with Lower East Side Films, a Leon Ichaso film ; producers, John Penotti, Fisher Stevens, Tim Williams ; written & directed by Leon Ichaso.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen version (1.85:1)
Publisher:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Special features: theatrical trailer; "A look at Miguel Piñero, The man". Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez, Michael Wright, Michael Irby, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Klein, Rita Moreno.
Summary:
The story of the life of a Latino icon, the 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.
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