Come See the Paradise (1990)
- R
- 12/23/1990 (US)
- Drama, Romance, History
- 2h 13m
In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America.
Overview
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.