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Come See the Paradise!
MovieAddict - wrote on 01/19/2013
We all dream our American dreams
When we're awake and when we sleep
So much hope that grief belies
Far beyond the lies and sighs
Because dreams are free
And so are we!
The film takes place during WWII and portrays a bad time for US domestic policy for Japanese-Americans who were just trying to live the American Dream until the policies of the US Government took their dreams away from them as they were stripped of their property and sent to prison camps in California. Their crime: simply being of Japanese descent.
Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid), is an Irish-American labor organizer who falls in love with Lily Kawamura (Tamlyn Tomita), his Japanese Boss’s daughter. Lily's father (Sab Shimono) does not like the white American and this forces Jack and Lily to elope in Seattle as …
