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.

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.

There’s an awkward pre-adolescent love affair between one kid and the girl downstairs. There’s too much easy melodrama at the hospital when the kids are discovered. And finally we understand that “Popi” isn’t really about Spanish Harlem, or the problems of raising kids in a city.

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.

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.

Popi, a.k.a. 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; but before he can do this, Popi feels obligated to realize his other aim -- assuring his sons a ...

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...

After instructing his boys how to row with lessons in Central Park, Popi takes them to Florida and sets them adrift on the ocean, knowing that two cute "refugees from Cuba" seeking asylum in the U.S. will become celebrity cases and probably be adopted by rich WASP's.

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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.