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Title Piñero / 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.

Publication Info. Burbank, Calif : Miramax Home Entertainment : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD PINERO    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Description 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: theatrical trailer; "A look at Miguel Piñero, The man".
Credits Director of photography, Claudio Chea ; editor, David Tedeschi ; original music, Kip Hanrahan ; costume designer, Sandra Hernandez ; production designer, Sharon Lemofsky.
Cast 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.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
Form Also issued on VHS.
System Details DVD, 2.0 Dolby digital.
Language English dialogue, Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Piñero, Miguel.
Authors, Latin American -- United States.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Genre/Form Biographical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Penotti, John.
Stevens, Fisher.
Williams, Tim.
Ichaso, León.
Bratt, Benjamin, 1963-
Esposito, Giancarlo.
Soto, Talisa.
Vasquez, Nelson.
Wright, Michael.
Irby, Michael.
Patinkin, Mandy.
Klein, Robert, 1942-
Moreno, Rita.
Chea, Claudio.
Tedeschi, David.
Hanrahan, Kip.
Hernandez, Sandra.
Lomofsky, Sharon.
Miramax Films.
GreenStreet Films (Firm)
Lower East Side Films (Firm)
Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
Standard No. 786936180930
Music No. 26079 Miramax Home Entertainment
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