Paul A. DiCocco Jr.

Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.

ロサンゼルス。私立探偵のギテスは、建設会社の経営者バーマンから妻キティの浮気調査を依頼される。だが、浮気現場を押さえたバーマンが相手の男を殺害してしまう。しかもその被害者は、バーマンの会社の共同経営者であるボディーンだった。ところが、凶器はボディーンのものだったことなどからバーマンは無罪放免に。また浮気現場で盗聴していたテープには、かつての案件で出会ったイヴリンの名とその娘のことが語られていた。そしてギテスは、単純に見えた今回の依頼の背後に巧妙な策謀が存在することを嗅ぎつけ、バーマンのもとへ行き着くのだが…。

Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.