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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.
Jack McGurn (Quaid) moves to Los Angeles from New Jersey in 1936 to escape from troubles that fall on him as a labor organizer. He takes a job as a projectionist in a Little Tokyo movie theater run by a Japanese-American family. He falls in love with his Japanese boss's daughter.
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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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.
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 The making of the film by Alan Parker For many years I have had a haunting picture by the great photographer, Dorothea Lange pinned
Dec 23, 1990 · Synopsis by Mark Deming. One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City.
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history. It follows the romance...
Come See the Paradise is a 1990 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 America following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within the framework of a love story.
Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. An interracial romance, set against the backdrop of World War II and the internment of Asian-Americans in relocation camps. Cast & Crew. Read More. Alan Parker. Director. Doug Machugh. Michael York. George Flower. Howard French. Paul Dicocco. Film Details. Also Known As.
