City of Joy
1992 · 2h 12m · Drama · France, United Kingdom · Rated PG-13 (US)
He was a man who couldn't care less... until he met a man who couldn't care more.
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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