Pinero
2001
**½
Director: Leon Ichaso
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez
This true story of Miguel Pinero - a Puerto Rican New Yorker, a petty criminal and later a successful street poet and playwright - seems to be aimed at his fans. The film doesn't manage to make its case for his significance as an artist or his appeal as a person to the uninitiated. Bratt is energetic in the lead, but this is just another formulaic story of a talented but self-destructive artist.
