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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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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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Feb 25, 2021 · 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 · Reviews. 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...
Jan 18, 1991 · Come See The Paradise. 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.
Jan 15, 2020 · Directed by Alan Parker, best known for films like Fame, Evita, and Angela’s Ashes, Come See the Paradise stars Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita and tells the story of an interracial couple who fight to be together to the backdrop of the Second World War and the government-mandated internment of Japanese American citizens. On paper, it ...
Aug 17, 1990 · Come See The Paradise, directed by Alan Parker, revolves around the turbulent romance between an American man, played by Dennis Quaid, and a Japanese-American woman, portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita, set against the backdrop of World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Come See the Paradise is a 1990 American historical drama film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II , the film depicts the treatment of Japanese Americans in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor , and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within ...
