Movie poster for Come See the Paradise
TMDb Rating
6.2/10

57 verified votes

Come See the Paradise (1990)

DramaRomanceHistory
133 min

"In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America."

Plot Summary

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. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Director

Alan Parker

Top Cast

Dennis QuaidTamlyn TomitaSab ShimonoBrady TsurutaniShizuko Hoshi

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