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Come See the Paradise (1990)

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One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City. Jack finds himself on the wrong side of the law after he gets involved in an ill-advised bombing of a scab shop, and he flees to Los Angeles, where Hiroshi Kawamura (Sab Shimono) gives him a job as a projectionist in L.A.'s Little Tokyo. Jack soon meets

R, 2 hr. 15 min.

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Alan Parker

Jun 6, 2006

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A love story set against the internment of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor.

July 19, 2003 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

Unfocused, overly dramatic, and all over the map; the ostensible subject deserves a much better treatment.

September 6, 2002 Comment
Flipside Movie Emporium

Seriously underrated work from Dennis Quaid and Alan Parker.

July 26, 2002 Comment
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One of my all-time favorite movies!! Love this movie with Quaid and Tomita! Beautiful tale of love and devotion, a fascinating story of the strength of family ties. FANTASTIC!!

January 3, 2008
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Leo L

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(1990 Director: Alan Parker) Seems there were a few movies made about hush hush accounts of the internment of Japanese living in America in response to WW II! This film is one; another is Snow Falling on Cedars, though in a less underplayed way. As I tell my son this is NOT a war movie yet in the stories of the

October 24, 2009
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Teresa S

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