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Playing God | 1997 | R | - 3.8.8

David Duchovny is a former medical doctor who starts acting as a doctor for Timothy Hutton's criminal organization.

SEX/NUDITY 3 - Scantily clad women dance on screen and live in a club. We can see a woman's breast through her transparent bra. Kissing, sexual innuendo.

VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - People are shot throughout (sometimes with blood on their chests and torsos). A man puts his finger in a bloody wound. A few scenes of people with bloody hands and clothes. A few scenes of people and corpses covered in blood. Blood spurts during a surgery, when a man's throat is slit, and blood splatters against a man's face, glass and furniture. A bloody hole is seen in a man's abdomen. A man is smothered and then shot. A man roughs up a woman. A woman has bloody, scraped face and lips. A man is hit by a car (with blood at his temple and in his mouth). A very bloody woman after a gunshot. Threatening with guns. Reckless driving, chases, people throw each other around, scuffles, a couple of face punches.

LANGUAGE 8 - About 66 F-words, some scatological and anatomical references and some mild obscenities.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Medical doctors, drug addiction, criminals.

MESSAGE - Don't make pacts with criminals.

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