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City of Joy

City of Joy
★ 6.6/10•1992•2h 12m•PG-13•Drama

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

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.

Roland Joffé · Director

Dominique LaPierre · Writer

Mark Medoff · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime2h 12m
LanguageEN
Release DateApr 15, 1992
Budget$27,000,000
Revenue$14,683,921

Actors

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

Art Malik

Art Malik

Ashok Ghatak

Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban

Anouar

Suneeta Sengupta

Suneeta Sengupta

Poomina

Shyamanand Jalan

Shyamanand Jalan

Ghatak - Godfather

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Chomotkar

Anjan Dutt

Anjan Dutt

Masood Akhtar

Masood Akhtar

Loveleen Mishra

Loveleen Mishra

Pavan Malhotra

Pavan Malhotra

Anashua Majumdar

Anashua Majumdar

Satya Bandopadhyay

Satya Bandopadhyay

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