City of Joy
MovieTitle | City of Joy |
User score | 6.6 |
Release date | Apr 15, 1992 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Roland Joffé |
Production country | France, United Kingdom |
Production companies | TriStar Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, Pricel, Lightmotive |
Budget | $27,000,000 |
Revenue | $14,683,921 |
Run time | 132 min. |
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.