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#6,600 All-time worldwide
#90 1992 releases

Movie profile

City of Joy

1992 · 132 min · Lightmotive

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.7M
Budget $27.0M
Gross minus budget -$12.3M
ROI 0.54x

Domestic gross

$7.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where City of Joy ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,600 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1992 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1992. Primary genre #2,723 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did City of Joy (1992) perform at the box office?

High confidence

City of Joy (1992) earned a reported $14.7M worldwide against a reported $27.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$12.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.54x. In this database it currently ranks #6,600 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 1992 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,683,921
Budget
$27,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$12,316,079
ROI
0.54x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 15, 1992
Production
Lightmotive, Pricel
Countries
FR, GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLightmotive Release year chart1992 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1992, City of Joy is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Lightmotive. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.7M, reported production budget is $27.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$12.3M, ROI is 0.54x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,600 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 1992 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.