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    Come See the Paradise 1990 POSTER

    Come See the Paradise

    1990

    English

    6.7

    10

    64%

    73%

    1940s

    Action

    Drama

    forbidden love

    interracial marriage

    love

    new york city

    Romance

    War

    world war ii

    Alan Parker Alan Parker Director David Carpenter David Carpenter as Army Captain Dennis Quaid Dennis Quaid as Jack McGurn Tamlyn Tomita Tamlyn Tomita as Lily Yuriko Kawamura / McGann Kim Robillard Kim Robillard as Road Block Soldier
    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.
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