Word: popi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy and poverty mix, one of them is probably lying. In the case of Popi, the plight of the poor is told with harrowing accuracy. It is the laughs that arise from calculated invention. A Puerto Rican widower, Popi (Alan Arkin) holds down three jobs to keep his family together. He is kept so busy that his children's hour is shrunk to a minute, and his two boys, Luis and Junior, are reduced to shiftless street Arabs...
...message. Thirty-six hours later, Luis and Junior are brought ashore, sunstruck and dehydrated. On their hospital cots, the "orphans" are indeed hailed as heroes and plied with gifts. The trouble is, they would trade all the bikes and toys, all the chances for plush adoption, for life with Popi. As officials tumble to the truth and scandal hovers overhead, a HEW functionary asks, "How can we deprive the world of a happy ending to this fairy tale?" To the film's credit, it chooses deprivation...