CITY OF JOY

 

Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins

Warner Bros.; Directed by Roland Joffe

Rated PG-13; 132 minutes; 1992

 

An American surgeon loses a young patient, quits the medical profession and goes to India to find himself. There he runs into a nun who is trying to establish a free clinic in a neighborhood of untouchables. He resists the call back to medicine, but eventually begins helping them build the clinic, which angers the local "Godfather" who tries to stop the project by intimidation.