Come See the Paradise (1990)
August 17, 1990
Drama, Romance, History
2h 13m


In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Jack McGurn Dennis Quaid
- Lily Kawamura Tamlyn Tomita
- Mr. Kawamura Sab Shimono
- Mrs. Kawamura Shizuko Hoshi
- Charlie Kawamura Stan Egi
- Older Mini McGann Caroline Junko King
- Augie Farrell Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Gerry McGurn Colm Meaney
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Keywords
- new york city
- world war ii
- forbidden love
- love
- interracial marriage
- 1940s