City of Joy (1992 film)
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Directed by | Roland Joffé |
Screenplay by | Mark Medoff |
Based on | City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre |
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Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling |
Music by | Ennio Morricone |
Production companies | Lightmotive Allied Filmmakers |
Distributed by | AMLF (France) Warner Bros. (United Kingdom) |
Release date |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
Countries | France United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $27 million[1] |
Box office | $14.6 million |
City of Joy (released in the Philippines as Raging Inferno) is a 1992
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Hazari Pal is a rural farmer who moves to
Meanwhile, at the other end of Calcutta, Max Lowe, a Houston surgeon distraught after the loss of a young patient, has arrived in search of spiritual enlightenment. However, he encounters misfortune as soon as he arrives. After being tricked by a young prostitute, he is roughed up by thugs and left bleeding in the street without his documents and valuable possessions.
Hazari comes to Max's aid and takes the injured doctor to the "City of Joy," a slum area populated with
Eventually, Max begins to fit in with his fellow slum-dwellers and become more optimistic. There are many around him whose lives are much worse, but they look on each day with a hope that gives new strength to the depressed doctor.
Cast
- Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe
- Om Puri as Hazari Pal
- Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel
- Vishal Slathia as Joey Barton
- Shabana Azmi as Kamla H. Pal
- Anashua Majumdar as Selima
- Ayesha Dharker as Amrita H. Pal
- Santu Chowdhury as Shambu H. Pal
- Imran Badsah Khan as Manooj H. Pal
- Shyamanand Jalan as Mr. Ghatak, the godfather
- Anjan Dutt as Dr Sunil
- Art Malik as Ashok Ghatak
- Nabil Shaban as Anouar
- Sanjay Pathak as Shoba
- Debatosh Ghosh as Ram Chande
- Sunita Sengupta as Pormina
- Loveleen Mishra as Shanta
- Pavan Malhotra as Ashish
- Iftekhar as Hazari's father
- Chitra Sen as the angry woman
- Dipti Dave as a schoolgirl
Reception
City of Joy was released in France and the United Kingdom on 30 September and 2 October 1992 respectively; it was first released in the United States on 17 April 1992. In the Philippines, the film was released as Raging Inferno by First Films on 22 July 1993, with one local poster showing Swayze holding a gun.[2]
Box office
In contrast to some of Joffe's previous successes (
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 53% based on reviews from 17 critics.[6]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "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."[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Impassioned Missions : Director Joffe's 'City of Joy' Faced Obstacles at Home, Abroad". Los Angeles Times. 16 April 1992.
- ^ "The Biggest Surprise Movie of the Year Opens Today!". Manila Standard. Kamahalan Publishing Corp. 22 July 1993. p. 21.
Widely-acclaimed as a totally-different kind of movie! It will touch your hearts and uplift your soul!!
- ^ "No Easter Basket for Box Office : Movies: 'Basic Instinct' winds up in first place over the holiday weekend, but business so far this year is down about 9%". Los Angeles Times. 20 April 1992. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
- ^ "City of Joy (1992)". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). 17 April 1992. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ^ "City of Joy".
- ^ "City of Joy (1992)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (1992). "City Of Joy movie review & film summary (1992)". Chicago Sun-Times.
External links
- City of Joy at IMDb