Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Alan Parker

Keywords: Drama, WWII, Prison

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Colm Meaney	Actor	30-May-1953		Transporter Chief O'Brien in Star Trek: TNG
Dennis Quaid	Actor	9-Apr-1954		Any Given Sunday, Innerspace
Tamlyn Tomita	Actor	27-Jan-1966		The Burning Zone
Pruitt Taylor Vince	Actor	5-Jul-1960		American character actor
Michael York	Actor	27-Mar-1942		Logan's Run

REVIEWS

Review by Larry (posted on 2-Mar-2008)

The movie is based on actual events that occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In February, 1942 President Franklyn Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 and this set in motion the internment of over 120,000 Japanese in "camps" mostly in the western states. The majority of the internees were U.S. citizens. The movie focuses on the Kawamura family, and the main character in the movie is Lily Kawamura, the oldest of five siblings. The movie shows how the very heart of the Japanese community on the west coast was torn out and trampled by racism and war hysteria. The movie does a good job of portraying how the interment split families and the aftermath of the egregious event. In the Kawamura family a rift developes bewtween the father, his daughter Lily who eloped with Jack McGann to get married, and his son, Charlie, who felt that his father had betrayed his trust (the father was arrested for his cultural activities within the Japanese community and Charlie felt he had collaborated with the FBI). After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled executive order 9066 to be unconstitutional in 1944, the families were allowed to return home. For the Kawamura's this meant going to live on a strawberry farm in Florin, California. By the time the family leaves the camp the only male left in the family was Frankie, the youngest sibling. Tamlyn Tomita gives a memorable performance as Lily, Dennis Quaid not so memorable as Jack McGann. The movie has a good flow to it, a good story line, a very good musical score.

Review by Gary Bouchard (posted on 14-May-2007)

"Come See the Paradise" is a film that every American should see. As well as being a very entertaining and dramatic film with a great storyline, this well crafted film forces us to take a close look another time in American History when civil liberties were taken away all in the name of War.

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