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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.
- (1K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Arthur Hiller
- 1969-10-22
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
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. But as a result, he's too busy to pay adequate attention to the kids.
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....
- (16)
- Arthur Hiller
- G
- Alan Arkin
1969 · 1 hr 54 min. G. Comedy · Drama. 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.
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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...
