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Release Date: 1990

Cast: Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Dennis Quaid, Colm Meaney, Becky Ann Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Caroline Junko King, Tamlyn Tomita

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, War Film, Period Piece, Historical Drama, Romance Film

Come See the Paradise is a 1990 film directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II, the film depicts the treatment of Japanese people in America following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within the framework of a love story. In 1936, Jack McGurn (Quaid) is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union thugs starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt... MORE

Come See the Paradise is a 1990 film directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II, the film depicts the treatment of Japanese people in America following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within the framework of a love story. In 1936, Jack McGurn (Quaid) is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union thugs starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, urges him to leave the area. Jack moves to Los Angeles where his brother Gerry lives. Jack's role as a "sweatshop lawyer" strains an already-rocky relationship with Gerry who is willing to have any job, barely keeping his family afloat during the Great Depression. Taking the name McGann, Jack finds a job as a projectionist (ironically, non-union) in a movie theater run by a Japanese-American family. He falls in love with Lily (Tomita), his Japanese boss's daughter. Forbidden to see one another by her Issei parents and banned from marrying by California law, LESS