RUS
1990DramaRomanceHistory2h 13m

Come See the Paradise

In 1942 over 100,000 Americans were interned in prison camps. In America.

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.

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

new york cityworld war iiforbidden loveloveinterracial marriage1940s

Production

20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox