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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2006
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dennis Quaid & Tamlyn Tomita | |
Performer: | Sab Shimono, Colm Meaney & Shizuko Hoshi | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Parker | |
Composition by | Randy Edelman | |
Produced by | Robert F. Colesberry | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Seresin |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The deep sorrow and controlled anger of COME SEE THE PARADISE make its attack on bigotry all the more forceful....Fine, delicate performances...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Come See the Paradise is a fable to remind us of how easily we can surrender our liberties, and how much we need them.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Unfocused, overly dramatic, and all over the map; the ostensible subject deserves a much better treatment.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rating: 4/5 --
Seriously underrated work from Dennis Quaid and Alan Parker.
eFilmCritic.com
...Director Parker keeps breaking down barriers, striking out audaciously...
Los Angeles Times
A love story set against the internment of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor.
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Spirituality and Practice
Though Parker's heart, and his facts, are in the right place, he's succeeded in reducing a powerful story of institutional racism into an unforgivably dull film.
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Newsweek
Product Description:
During the late 1930s, with the Second World War feverishly brewing, Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid), a struggling union activist working as a film projectionist in a San Francisco movie theater, falls in love with beautiful Japanese-American Lily Kawamura (Tamlyn Tomita). Against Lily's father's wishes (and contrary to the California law of the time forbidding intermarriage), Jack and Lily wed and have a child. Their marriage flourishes until the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and America enters World War II. Japanese Americans--including Lily and her family--are herded into concentration camps by the thousands. Jack is drafted into the army but is prepared to risk life and limb to see his family again.
The predominantly Japanese American cast paints a stunning collective portrait of the toll taken by the rash and racist internment of Japanese-Americans during the war. Director Alan Parker, as he did in MISSISSIPPI BURNING, uses his acute, convincing storytelling abilities to take a brave look at a dark episode in America's past.
The predominantly Japanese American cast paints a stunning collective portrait of the toll taken by the rash and racist internment of Japanese-Americans during the war. Director Alan Parker, as he did in MISSISSIPPI BURNING, uses his acute, convincing storytelling abilities to take a brave look at a dark episode in America's past.
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Product Info
- UPC: 024543244608
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