Piñero (2001)

Piñero: Directed by Leon Ichaso. With Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez. Miguel Pinero’s creative and turbulent life was cut short at the age of forty. A Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.

“PINERO (2001) *** Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Mandy Patinkin, Talisa Soto, Michael Wright, Rita Moreno, Robert Klein, Fisher Stevens (cameo). Bratt shines as fiery Puerto Rican poet/artist/addict Miguel Pinero, whose stints behind bars led to a second life as a gadfly controversial Beat poet who became the underground artiste sceneu0026#39;s cause celebre until his untimely yet doomed death at the age of forty to cirrhosis of the liver. (Dir: Leon Ichaso)”