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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." [5] The film was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. [6]
“Come See the Paradise” is a fable to remind us of how easily we can surrender our liberties, and how much we need them.
The movie also acts as a good fable reminding us of how easily we can give up our freedoms and liberties, and how much we need them. You can only lose so much you love and so...
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- Alan Parker
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- Dennis Quaid
Jan 1, 2000 · Come See The Paradise. Never one to shy away from the nearest controversy, Alan Parker here follows his rough ride over Mississippi Burning by turning to yet another potentially explosive...
Come See the Paradise. Jack McGurn (Quaid) takes a job at a movie theatre in Los Angeles ' Little Tokyo and falls for owner's daughter Lily (Tomita). They marry, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor all JapaneseAmericans are interned.
Given the tendency of many American filmmakers to avoid complex and ethically charged periods of American history, Come See The Paradise must be given high marks for its moral seriousness. Written and directed by Alan Parker, the film stars Dennis Quaid as Jack McGurn, a fiery East Coast union organizer who arrives in Los Angeles in 1936 to ...
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Jan 1, 1990 · Come See the Paradise In Alan Parker's richly mounted romantic saga of the Second World War relocation camps, the Asian-American cast is exemplary and Dennis Quaid has never been better.
