City of Joy
Apr 15 1992
•2h 12m
•Drama
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.
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Patrick Swayze
Max Lowe
Om Puri
Hazari Pal
Pauline Collins
Joan Bethel
Shabana Azmi
Kamla H. Pal
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