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City of Joy

Play trailer Poster for City of Joy PG-13,  1992,  2h 14m,  Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 53% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 74% 5,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
53% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 74% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
Farmer Hasari Pal (Pauline Collins) moves his family to Calcutta to start a new life. Settling in the city's poorest area (the "city of joy"), he finds Texan doctor Max (Patrick Swayze), who has been assaulted and robbed, lying in the street. Hasari takes him to his district, where the homeless and lepers live. Max becomes friends with Hasari and clinic doctor Joan (Om Puri), and Hasari gets a job as a rickshaw driver. Max soon plunges into his new life.

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Steve Jenkins Sight & Sound Feb 6, 2020
In City of Joy, the camera is constantly craning back over crowded streets, a grand movement which simply underlines the lack of connection between the large and small-scale elements of the project. Go to Full Review
Anthony Lane Independent (UK) Jan 4, 2018
The unpleasant surprise is Ennio Morricone's score, his worst ever. The final chorus sounds like 10,000 Pekinese puppies stuck in a cave. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000
3/4
City of Joy seems a little too "written," too conformed to the rituals of Hollywood screenplays. There's so much interesting stuff in the movie we are prepared to forgive that. Go to Full Review
Malcolm L. Johnson Hartford Courant Jun 6, 2018
This tale of self-discovery works more fascinatingly as a quasi-documentary/travelogue than as a human drama. Go to Full Review
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 8, 2005
3/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 3, 2005
1/5
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Cast & Crew

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Roland Joffé

Director

Patrick Swayze

Max Lowe

Om Puri

Hazari Pal

Pauline Collins

Joan Bethel

Shabana Azmi

Kamla H. Pal

Ayesha Dharkar

Amrita H. Pal

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City of Joy

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Movie Info

Synopsis Farmer Hasari Pal (Pauline Collins) moves his family to Calcutta to start a new life. Settling in the city's poorest area (the "city of joy"), he finds Texan doctor Max (Patrick Swayze), who has been assaulted and robbed, lying in the street. Hasari takes him to his district, where the homeless and lepers live. Max becomes friends with Hasari and clinic doctor Joan (Om Puri), and Hasari gets a job as a rickshaw driver. Max soon plunges into his new life.
Director
Roland Joffé
Producer
Jake Eberts
Screenwriter
Dominique Lapierre, Mark Medoff
Production Co
Pricel, Allied Filmmakers
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.6M
Runtime
2h 14m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
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