City of Joy

City of Joy

2h 12m 1992 Drama France, United Kingdom
Budget: $27,000,000 Revenue: $14,683,921

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.

Director

Roland Joffé

Writer

Dominique LaPierre, Mark Medoff