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Released
City of Joy
April 15 1992 (almost 33 years ago)Rating
66
Based on
157 reviews
He was a man who couldn't care less... until he met a man who couldn't care more.
- Director: Roland Joffé
- Writer: Mark Medoff
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 2 h 12 m
- Budget: $27,000,000
- Box office: $14,683,921
- Countries: France, United Kingdom
- Companies: TriStar Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, Pricel, Lightmotive
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.