Come See the Paradise R

Come See the Paradise
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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

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 474
...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
Dec 23, 1990
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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2/5 -- Unfocused, overly dramatic, and all over the map; the ostensible subject deserves a much better treatment.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Sep 6, 2002
Rating: 4/5 -- Seriously underrated work from Dennis Quaid and Alan Parker.
eFilmCritic.com
Jul 27, 2002
...Director Parker keeps breaking down barriers, striking out audaciously...
Los Angeles Times
Jan 17, 1991
A love story set against the internment of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor. Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Jul 19, 2003
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. Full Review
Newsweek
Mar 31, 2008

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.

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  • UPC: 024543244608
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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