Come See the Paradise (1990)

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

138 min★ 6.7 · 3,320 votes

• Drama
• Romance
• War

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.

Release date

September 27, 1990

Country of origin

United States