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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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

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