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City of Joy(Movie, 1992)

PG-13
| 2h 12min | Genre: Drama
City of JoyRating: 3.3/5 (with 7171 votes)
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 Shabana Azmi. ()
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About City of Joy

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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Additional Information

Production countries: France, United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: Kolkata, India
Based on: "City of Joy" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/15/1992
Director: Roland Joffé
Screenwriter: Joe Eszterhas
Film Editor: Gerry Hambling
Director of Photography: Peter Biziou
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Stadt der Freude"
"La cité de la joie"
Keywords: leprosy, calcutta, hope, india
Budget: 27,000,000 USD
Revenue: 14,683,921 USD (= 54%)

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