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A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.


“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.

Dennis Quaid
Jack McGurn

Tamlyn Tomita
Lily Kawamura

Sab Shimono
Mr. Kawamura
Brady Tsurutani
Frankie Kawamura

Shizuko Hoshi
Mrs. Kawamura

Stan Egi
Charlie Kawamura
Ronald Yamamoto
Harry Kawamura
Akemi Nishino
Dulcie Kawamura
Naomi Nakano
Joyce Kawamura
Elizabeth Gilliam
Younger Mini McGann
Come See the Paradise is a drama, romance, history film released in 1990 exploring themes of new york city, world war ii, forbidden love, love, interracial marriage, 1940s. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono. 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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