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Jan 18, 1991 · 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. Most of the characters in "Come See the Paradise" are Japanese-Americans who were thrown into prison camps at the outset of World War II, even though there was no evidence that they were less patriotic, less "American," than members of other ethnic ...
Rated 4/5 Stars • 03/31/23. Directed by Alan Parker. Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita star in a historical drama. Beginning in the 1930s Jack is a projectionist at a movie theater in Los Angeles ...
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 'fresh' 64% rating based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. Noted Chicago Sun Times critic Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars out of 4 and wrote that "Come See the Paradise is a fable to remind us of how easily we can surrender our liberties, and how much we need them."
preppy-3 23 September 2007. Movie about the Japanese internment camps during WWII. It starts in 1936 when angry union organizer Jack (Dennis Quaid) meets beautiful Japanese-American Lily (Tamlyn Tomita) and falls in love. They get married, have a child...and then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Feb 25, 2021 · Dennis Quaid as Jack, Caroline Junko King as Mimi and Tamlyn Tomita as Lily in “Come See the Paradise.” By J.K. YAMAMOTO, Rafu Shimpo. Since 2020 marked the 30 th anniversary of “Come See the Paradise,” this might be an appropriate time to look back on the film — Hollywood’s first big-screen, big-budget treatment of the WWII camps — and see how much progress has been made since then.
Jan 1, 2000 · Come See The Paradise Review. Jack McGurn (Quaid) comes to LA in the mid-1930s, and gets a job as a cinema projectionist in Little Tokyo. He falls in love with the Japanese-American owner's ...
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Sep 10, 2012 · Parker's movie about the experience of Japanese-Americans immediately after Pearl Harbor characteristically undermines its socio-political problems by focusing single-mindedly on the lives of a ...
