Max Lowe
DVD Review: Patrick Swayze’s City of Joy (1992)
Posted on Sep 17, 2009 @ 06:30PM - Add a comment
Tristar Pictures
Over the span of his career, Patrick Swayze appeared in dozens of productions, playing characters that mostly had a few key assets: seductive dance moves, tough-guy attitude and, as his performance in Ghost revealed, the gravity of a leading man (plus: those hands!). But in City of Joy, Roland Joffe’s 1992 adaptation of Dominique LaPierre’s eponymous book, Swayze portrayed a different kind of character; a man who was searching for answers, who had lost his way in life and, above all, needed some purpose -- and fast.
