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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."
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Come See The Paradise. Drama. 133 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1991. Roger Ebert. January 18, 1991. 5 min read. 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.
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.
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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Come See the Paradise is a 1990 American historical drama film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita.
Jan 1, 2000 · Dennis Quaid - remarkably good as the romantic lead - plays Jack McGurn, a militant union organiser who arrives in Los Angeles after a demonstration back home in New York goes tragically wrong.
Come See the Paradise Reviews. Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011. Though Parker's heart, and his facts, are in the right place, he's succeeded in reducing a powerful story of ...
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.
