City of Joy

Apr 15, 1992

2h 12m

★ 6.6

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Lightmotive

Pricel

City of Joy Trailers

Cast

Max Lowe

Patrick Swayze

Hazari Pal

Om Puri

Joan Bethel

Pauline Collins

Kamla H. Pal

Shabana Azmi

Amrita H. Pal

Ayesha Dharker

Ashok Ghatak

Art Malik

Anouar

Nabil Shaban

Poomina

Suneeta Sengupta

Ghatak - Godfather

Shyamanand Jalan

Chomotkar

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Anjan Dutt

Masood Akhtar

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