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Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

Aug 17, 1990
133 min
DramaRomanceHistory
6.2/ 10
57 votes

Overview

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.

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6.2/10
57 votes
IMDB
6.7/10
3,218 votes
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64%
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US Box Office$947,306Domestic earnings

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3 nominations total

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

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Original Language

en

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20th Century Fox

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