Come See the Paradise
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| Directed by | Alan Parker |
| Produced by |
Robert F. Colesberry Nellie Nugiel |
| Written by | Alan Parker |
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| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | Michael Seresin |
| Edited by | Gerry Hambling |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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138 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $947,306 |
Come See the Paradise is a 1990 drama film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II, the film depicts the treatment of Japanese Americans in the United States 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 members 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 Kawamura, his boss' daughter. Forbidden to see one another by her Issei parents and banned from marrying by California law, the couple elopes to Seattle, where they marry and have a daughter, Mini.
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