City of Joy (1992)
"He was a man who couldn't care less... until he met a man who couldn't care more."
ThumbScore
👍 71%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 53%
(RT: 53%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel
Shabana Azmi as Kamla H. Pal
Ayesha Dharker as Amrita H. Pal
Nabil Shaban as Anouar
Suneeta Sengupta as Poomina
Is City of Joy good?
Most people think so. 71% audience score, estimated from 163 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 53%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
