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City of Joy (released in the Philippines as Raging Inferno) is a 1992 drama film directed by Roland Joffé, with a screenplay by Mark Medoff. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Dominique Lapierre, which looks at poverty in then-modern India, specifically life in the slums. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri and ...
- $27 million
- Ennio Morricone
- 15 April 1992
Apr 17, 1992 · A doctor, a nurse, and a farmer join forces to help the poor and sick in a Calcutta ghetto called City of Joy. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, and Om Puri, and is based on a true story by Dominique Lapierre and Mark Medoff.
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- Drama
- Roland Joffé
- 1992-04-17
City of Joy (French: La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel, [1] although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah .
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Apr 17, 1992 · A film about a surgeon who travels to Calcutta and helps a rickshaw driver in need, based on a novel by Dominique Lapierre. Ebert praises the film's locations, performances, and avoidance of romance, but criticizes its ending and view of Calcutta.
A movie about a group of people who try to improve the lives of the poor in a Calcutta slum called City of Joy. The plot involves an American doctor, a British nurse, an Indian farmer, and a corrupt godfather.
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Apr 15, 1992 · 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 ...
In the best performance of his career, Swayze stars as Max Lowe, a disillusioned surgeon who travels to India after a young patient dies on the operating table. But Lowe's determination to quit medicine is challenged when he meets a committed British nurse who runs a free clinic in Calcutta's mostdangerous neighborhood. And when her clinic - and the livelihood of her neighbors - is threatened ...
