City of Joy
1992, Film, 132 min, Crime, Drama, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by Roland Joffé
Cast
- Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe
- Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel
- Om Puri as Hazari Pal
- Shabana Azmi as Kamla H. Pal
- Ayesha Dharker as Amrita H. Pal
- Santu Chowdhury as Shambu H. Pal
- Imran Badsah Khan as Manooj H. Pal
- Art Malik as Ashok Ghatak
- Nabil Shaban as Anouar
- Debatosh Ghosh as Ram Chander
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