First Friday Film: Come See the Paradise

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In 1936, intermarriage is illegal in California. Jack McGurn and Lily Kawamura elope to Seattle where they have a daughter. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, Lily, her family, and thousands of other Japanese-Americans are "relocated" to interment camps Jack tries desperately to keep his family together, but the grim specter of war threaten to tear them apart.

Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita star in this powerful film.