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Come See the Paradise

1990 · 133 min · Drama, Romance, HistoryR

In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America.

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.

Director
Alan Parker
Writer
Alan Parker
Released
August 17, 1990
Language
English
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