Popi

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Summary: Who broke the mailbox? I don't know! SLAP! Who broke the
Review: I remember seeeing this movie when I was like 5 or 6 years old on Channel 5 in NYC. Even though I was really young then, I still haven't forgotten about this film and occasionally look for it on video. Most people I toalk to about this film don't know it, but luckily there are some who remember it. Alan Arkin is a great actor. My favorite scene is when he tries to find out who broke the mailbox - it was funny to me then, even though doesn't end up as being a funny scene, but it is funny when he tries to compose himself from losing it and the kid is so obviously lying "I don't know..." I love this film!

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Summary: A GREAT HEARTWARMIN STORY.ARKIN IS GOD!
Review: I remember seeing this film as a young kid, a great move and an amazing story. HEY STUDIO, GET THIS ON VIDEO! I think it was released at the early days of video, but cannot find any internet link about it. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Alan Arkin, {I'm working on getting him to star in my film}, who is a fantastic guy and the most amazing actor. This picture already has a built in audience for video, so WAKE UP studio and lets have it. If anyone has any new feedback about this picture, please Email me. JOHN

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Summary: This movie knocks on the door of your emotional side.
Review: I thought that this movie was outstanding. To me this movie doesn't compare with the Gonzalas Case at all. This movie shows the love between a father and his sons. The father goes through a great deal of trouble to insure that his children would have a better life that he couldn't provide for them. In the end, he realizes that it's not the love for a better life that the children want, but it is the love of their father. This movie made me think about my own family and made me thankful for what I have and at ease about the things that I don't have. I definitely would not recommend it to little children, because I don't think that they would understand it and it has profanity, but it is a superb PG-13 movie. Two Thumbs Up!!!

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Summary: A beautiful film of unselfish sacrifice and love
Review: It is very rare that a film touches a nerve or makes me emotional.POPI achieved both these things for me.I first saw the film about 10 years ago and had been searching for it ever since.Alan Arkins performance is simply outstanding,and credit should also be given to the rest of the cast.You would have to be totally brain dead or soulless not to appreciate the beauty of human emotion and unconditional love that the film projects.

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Summary: The most emotionally confusing movie ever
Review: Popi is about a Puerto Rican widower named Abraham living in Manhatten with his two sons Junior and Luis. They live in an impoverished high-crime neighborhood. He works 60 hours a week doing blue collar jobs and gets 5 hours sleep per night. He wants to get his sons out of the neighborhood with a plan of faking their arrival on Miami Beach as escapen refugees from Cuba, hence getting nationwide attention and potential adoption to wealthier families. Once his sons get cruelly bullied by fellow neighborhood kids, Abraham finally decides to implement his plan. It works at first and all eyes in the US are on the two boys. But at the end, they virtually throw all possibilities of adoption and a better life away and reveal their identity to stay with their Popi, their father.

I love this movie and classify it as one of my all-time favorites. It is the most emotionally confusing movie I have ever seen. It is both sad, happy, and funny in one. The ending is one of the most funny, sad, and happy endings I have ever seen. In the movie, you sympathize with Abraham for living in impoverished conditions with his kids, working his fanny off, and just wanting a better life for them. Yet, at the end, the movie proves one of the most important messages in life: no money in the world can replace the love of family.

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Summary: Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear
Review: Surprisingly timely look at inequality and political expediency in the United States during the late 20th century. Abram Rodriguez is a day laborer and handyman of Puerto Rican descent struggling to raise two young sons alone in the squalor and danger of "Spanish Harlem" in New York City. When he discovers that members of another Latino group (Cuban exiles) are treated very differently because of political consideration, he makes a dreadful and selfless decision. No viewer will ever forget his cries of "I'm going to do it! I'm going to do it! "

For a short time, the boys become famous "symbols" of the Cuban liberation struggle, and are inundated with toys, prayers, and promises of a new and wonderful life. A problem arises, though, when the boys clearly love their "Popi" more than the consumer goods America can offer to some of its citizens.

While the film is leavened with memorable humor, the truths it reveals are painful, and sadly still relevant today.

One more note. The theme song is adorable, and most touching in light of current events involving another boy found in waters off the coast of south Florida and separated from his own "Popi."

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Summary: Charles Richey is exactly correct; this is a wonderful film.
Review: This film was poorly released because of a conflict. The video would easily become a cult classic.

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Summary: Excellent Classic 1969 Film; Moving, Funny, Relevant
Review: This great classic film from the 1960s stars Alan Arkin as Abraham, a Puerto Rican widower living in Spanish Harlem with 2 sons. Directed by Arthur Hiller and Written by Lester and Tina Pine the film depicts life in a New York slum as unbearable enough for Abraham to come up with a scheme that is funny, moving, and takes a great satirical swipe at anti-Communism. Though his sons like where they live, and Lupe (Rita Moreno) wants to marry Abraham, he has a better idea: cast his sons out to sea in Miami and have them pretend to be Cuban refugees.

This is excellent satire, as the "whole free world" comes to the aid of the sons....as long as they're Cubans and not Puerto Ricans (US citizens), not to mention Haitians.

Dominic Frontiere provides the catchy film score, and I doubt he had any say in the absolutely terrible lyrics (at the film's end).

Arkin's performance is great and emotional, and there is a realism to the film in spite of the satire (then again the whole Elian Gonzalez thing actually happened, didn't it). My advice for all who love top quality acting and filmmaking is see this one.

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Summary: Excellent Classic 1969 Film; Moving, Funny, Relevant
Review: This great classic film from the 1960s stars Alan Arkin as Abraham, a Puerto Rican widower living in Spanish Harlem with 2 sons. Directed by Arthur Hiller and Written by Lester and Tina Pine the film depicts life in a New York slum as unbearable enough for Abraham to come up with a scheme that is funny, moving, and takes a great satirical swipe at anti-Communism. Though his sons like where they live, and Lupe (Rita Moreno) wants to marry Abraham, he has a better idea: cast his sons out to sea in Miami and have them pretend to be Cuban refugees.

This is excellent satire, as the "whole free world" comes to the aid of the sons....as long as they're Cubans and not Puerto Ricans (US citizens), not to mention Haitians.

Dominic Frontiere provides the catchy film score, and I doubt he had any say in the absolutely terrible lyrics (at the film's end).

Arkin's performance is great and emotional, and there is a realism to the film in spite of the satire (then again the whole Elian Gonzalez thing actually happened, didn't it). My advice for all who love top quality acting and filmmaking is see this one.

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Summary: Popi
Review: This is a wonderful movie, and I'm so happy it is being rereleased on video. I have been looking for it for years. It is a moving story of an immigrant who wants to provide the best for his two children. The theme of this movie, made in the 1970's, is strikingly relevant today - Think Elian!