Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0024543244608 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 06, 2006 Running Time: 138 minutes Sales Rank: 29399 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 1991-01
Description: Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II.
The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.
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Rating: - Tomita saves a sinking ship...
The message of this film is very important, and historically accurate.
But so much didn't work: Quaid's unresolved past and military service (going AWOL often and without punishment). His relationship with his cussing brother, his NYC movie union debacle. And why was there no mention of the 1.6 billion dollars paid in repairations at the movie's end?(Paid in 1998, this Film made in 1991).
Still, this movie tugs at the heart. Lost in all of this is the performance of one of the greatest unknown actresses our our time, Tamlyn Tomita. She is brilliant, and her talent is wasted opposite Quaid whose Irish accent appears and reappears. Sadly, guess who became famous?
Rating: - Difficult to believe, but true
This is the second time I see this film, so I was surprised by the dramatic reality of the Concentration Camps for Japanese in the USA the first time I saw it, not now. This time I was really captivated by how the whole human story and love story hurt, really hurt, and by a wonderful Dennis Quaid who I think played here maybe his best role as an actor.
Rating: - Caught between two sides in a conflict
This is an excellent movie about ordinary people who are caught between cultures in a time of war. This movie is a simple movie dealing with fear, prejudice, passion, and interracial relations in a time of conflict. It is a war movie about war on the homefront so don't expect any action scenes. It is one of my all time favorites.
Rating: - powerful.....
I first saw this a requirement for a history class, when we were studying the effects of Japanese internment in the United States on those who were forced to stay in the barracks, due to Executive Order 9066, authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1942. This order allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. The seizure and relocation of all people of Japanese ancestry surged following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when anyone of that background was viewed potentially as a spy and "anti-American." COME SEE THE PARADISE takes a look at that part of United States history.
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- Tomita saves a sinking ship...
- Difficult to believe, but true
- powerful.....
