
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Drama starring Benjamin Bratt as Miguel Pinero a leading figure in New York&s art scene during the 1970s As a founder of the influential Nuyorican Poets Cafe Miguel&s poetry soon became recognised as a forerunner to rap & hip-hop music Raised in an abusive family Pinero turns to streets for solace Soon he is engaging in petty crime drug dealing & addiction When he finds himself in Sing-Sing he turns his experiences in prison into the play Short Eyes which eventually garners him seven Tony awards in 1974 Uncomfortable with his new fame he clings to his girlfriend Sugar (Talisa Soto) & his childhood buddy Miguel Algarin (Giancarlo Esposito) who is a literature professor & who co-founded the Nuyorican Cafe Though Pinero makes cameos on such shows as Kojak his art begins to suffer as he starts to succumb to his drug addictions