I remember seeing this movie when I was a little boy. It's a mostly forgotte comedy about a Puerto Rican man(Alan Arkin) who wants a better life for his kids, away from the Bronx. So he goes to Miami, puts his kids on a small boat, hoping that people will think they came from Cuba and some rich Cuban family will adopt them. It's an outrageous concept, but the movie is pretty good. A strange mix of realism and sitcom humor.
One weird thing about seeing this movie now is that in 1969 the world of crime, junkies, gangs presented in this movie was so alien to our island. It was a world of the "boricuas de alla", of the Bronx. We were safe here. But seeing it now, all the social problems presented in the movie are here. We have turned into the Bronx of 1969.
Kind of sad if you think about it.
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