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Come See the Paradise is a 1990 American historical drama film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II , the film depicts the treatment of Japanese Americans in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor , and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within ...
Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again.
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Jan 18, 1991 · Come See The Paradise. Roger Ebert January 18, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Here is a movie about people who insist they are Americans, even when small and evil-minded people in power would treat them as if they were not.
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man (Sab ...
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- Alan Parker
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- Dennis Quaid
Dec 23, 1990 · In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship.
Come See The Paradise. During World War II, all Japanese immigrants and Americans of Japanese descent were forced to live in internment camps as prisoners of war. This is the story of a union organizer (Dennis Quaid) who goes AWOL from the Army to search for his Japanese wife and child in the camps. 337 IMDb 6.7 2 h 12 min 1990. X-Ray R.
