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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.
- $27 million
- Ennio Morricone
- 15 April 1992
Apr 17, 1992 · City of Joy: Directed by Roland Joffé. With Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Shabana Azmi. An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
- (5.5K)
- Drama
- Roland Joffé
- 1992-04-17
Apr 17, 1992 · Roger Ebert April 17, 1992. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. One day a surgeon named Max Lowe walks away from the operating theater and Houston and everything his life stands for. He's dropping out, and maybe in some kind of leftover '60s reflex he decides to travel to Calcutta.
Want to see. City of Joy Photos. See all photos. Movie Info. Farmer Hasari Pal (Om Puri) moves his family to Calcutta to start a new life. Settling in the city's poorest area (the...
- (17)
- Roland Joffé
- PG-13
- Patrick Swayze
Summaries. An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins. Independent of each other, the Pal family--parents Hazari and Kamla and their three offspring Amrita, Shambu and Manooj--and Max Lowe arrive in ...
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Film adaptation. References. 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 . Plot.
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 tab...