Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

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Drama

Come See the Paradise

DIRECTED BYAlan Parker133mins1990

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.

Other films by Alan Parker

Midnight Express
Mississippi Burning
Angel Heart
The Life of David Gale

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