City of Joy

1992 · 132 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 5,793 VOTES · DIR. Roland Joffé

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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.

Dialogue Timeline - 1,980 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:03:03 I'm out dad.
00:09:33 You are worried?
00:14:12 Uno noce.
00:21:14 For me you make try, huh?
00:25:34 Must be one of the three days.
00:29:36 Ashoka sahib.
00:35:27 Yeah, yeah.
00:39:30 I saw 'flims' all the time.
00:43:53 A heavy burden.
00:48:53 It' s a boy, daddy.
00:53:41 ...Dotor Lowe was telling us- that many of us could be helped.
00:57:28 Understand---great.
01:02:04 Man can be tamed by having an abundance or by having nothing.
01:05:30 You bow your heads and take this nightmare like you have no choice.
01:13:29 Oh I didn't get the concept. Of course, not lepers.
01:19:11 Joan, you're gonna have to make her stay here.
01:23:58 How will I get a job now?
01:29:26 All right.
01:33:53 It's Captain Manooj Pal, the pirate doctor.
01:39:12 I will make a restraining order against Ashoka Ghatak.
01:48:21 You can get water front property cheap.
01:55:25 Have you some cash?
02:00:45 ...baba!
02:09:27 They sure as hell haven't.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,980
Dialogue density15.0 lines / min
First line00:03:03
Final line02:09:27

Production Record

DirectorRoland Joffé
LanguageEnglish
Budget$27,000,000
Revenue$14,683,921
IMDb votes5,793