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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 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.
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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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...
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...
Come See the Paradise is a 1990 American historical drama film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita.
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When Jack falls in love with Lily, beautifully played by Tamlyn Tomita, her father refuses to let them marry. They flee to Seattle where intermarriage isn't forbidden, and Jack takes a job in a cannery. Their happiness is short-lived when he jeopardizes their security by resuming union activities.
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