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American Pastime is a 2007 fictional film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the internment camps, where baseball was one of the major ...
May 14, 2007 · American Pastime: Directed by Desmond Nakano. With Aaron Yoo, Olesya Rulin, Carleton Bluford, Sami Roe. The dramatic impact World War II had on the home front as American families of Japanese descent were uprooted from their daily lives and placed in internment camps in the Western United States in the early 1940s.
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- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Desmond Nakano
- 2007-05-14
Synopsis. The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle). They are forced to leave their home in Los Angeles following the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin Delano ...
American Pastime 2007 1h 45m Drama List 33% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 68% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings The lives of Japanese-Americans upend during World War II.
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- Gary Cole
- Desmond Nakano
- Drama
Synopsis. American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American of sports - baseball - as a way to deal with their plight.
- Desmond Nakano
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