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- Heartwarming, funny, and fascinating Alan Arkin is excellent as a Spanish Harlem father of two pre-teenage boys who decides that they'd be better off without him in a fresh start. Warm, winning, insightful, and wry, this movie never strays off course from its poignant objective. The music and location footage are also excellent.
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Popi. Comedy. 113 minutes ‧ 1969. Roger Ebert. June 13, 1969. 3 min read. The premise is promising. Alan Arkin plays a harried Puerto Rican father in New York’s Spanish Harlem. He holds three jobs in an attempt to raise his two young sons decently.
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Genial Puerto Rican widower Abraham Rodriguez (Alan Arkin), known as "Popi" to his preteen sons, grapples with poverty and hardship in their Spanish Harlem neighborhood. Desperate to provide his...
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- Arthur Hiller
- G
- Alan Arkin
Popi: Directed by Arthur Hiller. With Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro. A Puerto Rican widower concocts an extraordinary plan for making a better life for his two motherless sons.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Arthur Hiller
- 1969-10-22
Popi is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno. The screenplay was written by Tina Pine and Lester Pine. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem.
POPI is a strange film to evaluate. It is both a satire of Cold War politics regarding Cuban refugees in the US and the struggle of Latin American communities, and a Chaplinesque comedy about a father doing his best to give his sons a better life, even if he won't be in the picture.
Home. Film. Reviews. Dec 31, 1968 11:00pm PT. Popi. Alan Arkin is cast as a Puerto Rican father, living in Spanish Harlem, whose fantastic plan to improve the lot of his two small sons...
Popi (Abraham Rodriguez), a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons amid the squalor of New York's Spanish Harlem, has two aims in life. One is to marry Lupe, his warmhearted, voluptuous girl friend, and move to Brooklyn.
