Playing God is a 1997 American dramatic crime thriller film directed by Andy Wilson and written by Mark Haskell Smith.

A crime lord named Raymond Blossom happens upon him in a bar where Sands 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.

The film did not fare well financially or with critics, scoring just a 16% at the review site Rotten Tomatoes[2] and making only $4,166,918 at the US theater box office.

[4] In an interview with the New York Times dated 9 April 2000, David Duchovny himself, while talking about production difficulties, stated that “Playing God was a mistake only because we didn't have a script ready...