The 'rounding up' of Japanese-Americans who were herded together in US confinement camps was one of the war's most scandalous injustices. Only in recent times has compensation for the surviving victims been agreed. Alan Parker's story about this ignoble episode in American history, and the mixed marriage caught up in it, runs a bit like a glowingly photographed TV mini-series, but nonetheless has some fine moments. These chiefly stem from the loving relationship between Lily (Tamlyn Tomita), daughter of a Japanese, and Jack (Dennis Quaid), an Irish-American forever in trouble for helping strikers in one form or another. Historically, the film will be an eye-opener for those of us who were hardly aware such a side to World War Two existed: understandable but still deplorable. As a story, the film is pretty long and slow in the telling: its best moments tend to be spaced too far apart for the comfort of constant attention.


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