Playing God is a 1997 film Directed by Andy Wilson. It starred David Duchovny in his first starring role after achieving success with The X-Files, Timothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie.
Duchovny plays Eugene Sands, a surgeon who has his medical license revoked when he operates under the influence of amphetamines and opiates. Hutton's character, a crime lord named Raymond Blossom, happens upon him in a bar where he saves someone's life with an emerge...
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Playing God is a 1997 film Directed by Andy Wilson. It starred David Duchovny in his first starring role after achieving success with The X-Files, Timothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie.
Duchovny plays Eugene Sands, a surgeon who has his medical license revoked when he operates under the influence of amphetamines and opiates. Hutton's character, a crime lord named Raymond Blossom, happens upon him in a bar where he saves someone's life with an emergency procedure to inflate a collapsed lung. Blossom hires Sands as his personal physician, patching up his accomplices when they cannot go to a hospital, and tending to the crime boss and his girlfriend, Claire (Jolie). In the final act of the film, Claire and Sands become involved, and he must face up to conflicting loyalties to Blossom, Claire, and the FBI agent who has blackmailed him into being an informant.
The film was finished in 1995 but not released until 1997 due to initial negative reactions from test audiences. The film's trailer...
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