
Come See the Paradise
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.
Release Date: 1990-08-17
Drama
Romance
History
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Official website: http://alanparker.com/film/come-see-the-paradise/
Casts

Dennis Quaid
as Jack McGurn

Tamlyn Tomita
as Lily Kawamura

Sab Shimono
as Mr. Kawamura

Shizuko Hoshi
as Mrs. Kawamura

Stan Egi
as Charlie Kawamura

Caroline Junko King
as Older Mini McGann

Pruitt Taylor Vince
as Augie Farrell

Colm Meaney
as Gerry McGurn

Becky Ann Baker
as Marge McGurn

John Finnegan
as Brennan