City of Joy

Year: 1992

Runtime: 132 mins

Language: English

Director: Roland Joffé

Drama

He was a man who couldn’t care less… until he met a man who couldn’t care more. Max Lowe, a Houston surgeon, is exhausted by American medical bureaucracy. After a patient dies on his table, he impulsively quits and flies to Calcutta hoping to find himself. Soon after, thugs attack him, leaving him without money or passport.

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