City of Joy

Name: City of Joy
Director: Roland Joffé
Genre: Drama
Released: 1992-04-15
Duration: 2 h 12 min
Rating: 6.606
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker

“He was a man who couldn't care less... until he met a man who couldn't care more.”

1992

2h 12m

Drama

Director: Roland Joffé

Writers: Dominique LaPierre, Mark Medoff

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Overview

Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.