David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blo...( read more  read more... )ssom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.

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R, 94 min.

Directed by: Andy Wilson (IV)

Release Date: October 17, 1997

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DVD Release Date: June 16, 1998

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  • November 22, 2006
    Horrible. Jolie aside, horrible.
  • September 28, 2006
    Great performances and a clever, well-written script are almost sunk by arty, pretentious directing. Wilson is a very good British television director but here he seems to want to change the film into something that it's not. Hey, it's a crime movie! Calm down with the camera ...( read more)angles.
  • May 30, 2008
    Just alright.
  • July 22, 2006
    Nothing special, but entertaining.
  • September 14, 2009
    pretty good movie actually
  • June 12, 2009
    I enjoyed this film, more than I expected, " Jolie" reprises her acting at the level we first had a glimpse of in "True Woman".
  • June 8, 2009
    Really Really twisted.
  • April 6, 2009
    the scene in this movie where he's talking about how she got medical insurance is just the movie's way of saying they're fucking now
  • February 6, 2009
    Playing God is a very average crime flick that tried to be bigger than it was, building on the success of Duchovny in X-Files. The cast are able to act when they want but wit hte material and the direction here it was never going to be anything more than mediocre.
  • December 13, 2008
    A decent film. David Duchovny was good in this. And Angelina Jolie was also good in this. Timothy Hutton played a great villain. Not a great amount of action but the story and characters are what I found to make this a good movie.

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