City of Joy

1992 | 132 minutes | 6.6 ★ (155)

City of Joy
  • 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.

  • Release Date

    15 April 1992

  • DirectingRoland Joffé
  • Budget

    $27,000,000.00

  • Revenue

    $14,683,921.00

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