City of Joy

IMDb 6.6 1992 • 132 min • Drama

Director

Roland Joffé

Country

FR

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze Max Lowe
Om Puri
Om Puri Hazari Pal
Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins Joan Bethel
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi Kamla H. Pal
Ayesha Dharker
Ayesha Dharker Amrita H. Pal