Come See the Paradise (1990) Reviews & Ratings

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Come See the Paradise reviews

Come See the Paradise holds a 6.2/10 average from 60 TMDB ratings.

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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