Sort by
Product Rating |
Sort by
Review Date |
| Product Rating: |  |
| Action Factor: |  |
| Special Effects: |  |
| Suspense: | |
|
|
|
by skbreese  in Movies,  - Top 500, Feb 22 '07
Pros: Enlightening and entertaining period romance, Chemistry between lead actors
Cons: Lacks poignancy and atmosphere
The finely crafted, 1990 period drama, Come See The Paradise, deals with a very dark period in American history, when this country turned on an entire ethnic group, the Japanese- Americans, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The result was the ...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: |  |
| |  |
|
|
|
by frwhiskey , Sep 11 '08
Pros: Excellent acting; solid storyline, clothing and sets, music and hairstyles very evocative of 1930's/40's.
Cons: Dennis Quaid as male love interest is a bit too schmarmy; otherwise, no complaints
This 1990 fim features Dennis Quaid as a yong American-Irish union organizer, Jack McGurn, a film projectionist by trade. He is constantly in trouble with his provocative speeches against the owners and capitalists. He is fired in Brooklyn, considers ...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by erikkarol , Feb 12 '02
Pros: Very accurate and moving story of the plight of Japanese Americans in interment camps
Cons: A little slow in spots.
Come See the Paradise is a wonderful movie that tells the story of a Japanese-American family during WWII. Come see the Paradise follows the love story of an Irish-American sweat shop lawyer and a daughter of a Japanese movie house operator. The...
Read the full review
|
|
|
- Add to My Yahoo!: 
- Add to Google Homepage: 
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.