Come See the Paradise
Drama, Romance, History
π¬ Critics Choice Nominee
Director
Alan Parker
Status
Released
Release Date
1990-08-17
Storyline
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. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
"In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America."
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