In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
Direction
Parker's unflinching eye for institutional cruelty.
Acting
Tamlyn Tomita's devastating stillness under impossible pressure.
Cinematography
The harsh beauty of Manzanar's desolation.
Director
Alan Parker
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