Come See the Paradise

1990 · Movies · Drama, History

bittersweet

Satisfying closure

How it ends

Danny's family endures internment but finds hope and resilience as they rebuild their lives after the war.

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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.