6.7
Where can I stream Come See the Paradise?
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Story
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.
Feels like
- Historical Drama
- Japanese Internment
- Forbidden Love
- Racial Prejudice
- World War II Era
- Emotional Storytelling
- Family Separation
- Social Injustice