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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.
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.
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.
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.
The title character (Alan Arkin) is a widower working three jobs in an effort to provide for his two sons. A Puerto Rican by birth, Popi concocts an outlandish scheme to insure that his boys won't grow up in the grinding poverty that currently surrounds them.
Popi is a film directed by Arthur Hiller with Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Miguel Alejandro, Rubén Figueroa .... Year: 1969. Original title: Popi. Synopsis: Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys.
Performed by two actors now acknowledged to be, as the Japanese say, "living national treasures," Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno at the height of their powers. Arvin could always make his outrage funny, and that's vital here, because this could have become a dark or preachy in other actor's hands.
