City of Joy(1992)

movie - first aired/released 1992-04-15 - 132 min - audience 6.6

Drama

Directed by Roland Joffé

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.