Playing God (1997) on Netflix
Stripped of his medical license for operating while high, surgeon Eugene Sands saves a man's life in an L.A. bar shooting. Counterfeiter Raymond Blossom offers him $10,000 to be his doctor.
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Plot summary
Ten months after losing his medical license for operating while high, former Los Angeles surgeon Eugene Sands is buying fentanyl citrate in a bar when Russian thugs shoot Isaac, the man beside him. Claire, who is there, has the bartender call her boyfriend, Raymond Blossom, and with her help Eugene performs an emergency procedure that inflates the victim's collapsed lung. Word of the rescue reaches Blossom, a counterfeiter whose associates Yates and Cyril bring Eugene to him. Blossom offers money to keep the surgeon on call, treating gunshot wounds so that his accomplices never risk a hospital and the police. FBI agent Thomas Gage is meanwhile working the counterfeiting case against Blossom.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Playing God (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Angelina Jolie confirmed that she filmed two sex scenes with David Duchovny for Playing God, but both were edited out of the final cut; the trailer still contained a brief glimpse of one of them.
- David Duchovny said in a New York Times interview that Playing God was a mistake because the script wasn't ready, and that he should have bailed out but didn't know how bad things were.
- The Propellerheads song "Spybreak!" was used in Playing God two years before it became famous as the main song of the blockbuster The Matrix in 1999.
