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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: 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
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...
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.
- Arthur Hiller, Don Moody, Peter Scoppa
- Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin plays a Puerto Rican father who tries to escape New York with his sons by pretending to be Cuban refugees. The movie is rich and warm in the city scenes, but unconvincing and melodramatic in the Florida plan.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller. To give his sons a better life, a Puerto Rican widower hatches a scheme to set them adrift as Cuban refugees in a rowboat off the Florida coast.
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...
- Comedy, Drama
