Film

Come See the Paradise 1990

Directed by Alan Parker

  • Drama, Romance, History
  • 133 min
  • R

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.

DramaRomanceHistorynew york cityworld war iiforbidden loveloveinterracial marriage1940s

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