Playing God (film)
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Playing God is a 1997 film starring David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie. It was Duchovny's first starring role after achieving success with The X-Files, and did not fare well financially or with critics, scoring just 19% at the review site Rotten Tomatoes[1] and making only $4,166,918 at the US theater box office[2]. The film was directed by Andy Wilson, who also directed the BBC miniseries Gormenghast.
[edit] Plot
Duchovny plays Eugene Sands, a surgeon who has his medical license revoked when he operates under the influence of amphetamines. 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.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/playing_god/?critic=columns
- ^ http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1997/PLAYI.php
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