Piñero

Piñero2001

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. It premiered at the Montreal Fi… more »



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Miguel Pi?ero:
Every player is a poet, an actor, a statesman, a priest. But most of all, he's a player. You go out there on the street and you meet a world of suckers, the world of greed and whatever other names have been defined for those that seek some thing outside the acceptance of their society. And you stand with your balls exposed in the jungle of fear and you battle. And you fight the hardest fight of your life each day out there in those streets that demand blood to nurse its own energies. Today and all the todays of tomorrow are left inside your soul. You know? And when it's over, when the streets are soaking up in the blood, you smile and you know that you've just won another day with yourself. You know?

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