Come See the Paradise
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| Come See the Paradise | |
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| Directed by | Alan Parker |
| Produced by | Robert F. Colesberry Nellie Nugiel |
| Written by | Alan Parker |
| Starring | Dennis Quaid Tamlyn Tomita Sab Shimono Shizuko Hoshi Stan Egi |
| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | Michael Seresin |
| Editing by | Gerry Hambling |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | December 23, 1990 |
| Running time | 138 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English Japanese |
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Come See the Paradise is a fact-based 1990 film directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II, the film depicts the treatment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent loss of civil liberties within the framework of a love story.[1]
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[edit] Plot summary
Jack McGurn (Quaid) moves to Los Angeles from New Jersey in 1936 to escape from his troubled past. He takes a job as a projectionist in a movie theater run by a Japanese-American family. He falls in love with his Japanese boss's daughter. Forbidden to see one another and banned from marrying by California law, the couple escape to Seattle. They have a little girl and then World War II breaks out. McGurn's wife and daughter are sent to Manzanar while McGurn is drafted into the United States Army. He goes AWOL to visit his family in the camp. The story is told in flashback as the mother tells her daughter about her father, whom she barely remembers as the two of them are walking down some railroad tracks after they are released from the camp near the end of the war.
[edit] Trivia
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- The music played during the theater burning scene was sometimes used in movie trailers in the 1990s to emphasize the dramatic tone of the movie.
[edit] References
- ^ Ebert, Roger; Chicago Sun-Times (January 18, 1991). Come See The Paradise.
[edit] External links
- Come See The Paradise at the Internet Movie Database
- Come See The Paradise at Allmovie
- Come See The Paradise at Rotten Tomatoes
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