City of Joy (1992)

Name: City of Joy
Director: Roland Joffé
Released: 1992-04-15
Rating: 6.607
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker

Drama

132 min

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

Plot Summary

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.