Tough Guy Babysits…Again: Playing with Fire
'Playing with Fire' was clearly a film made for a kid or tween-ish audience. Keeping that in mind, I thought 'Playing with Fire' was alright, though it did portray some harmful stereotypes.
13 (2010)
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Rating:R
Genre:Drama, Thriller
Written By:Gregory Pruss
In Theaters:3/12/2010
Box Office:$3,701,600
Runtime:91 minutes
Studio:Anchor Bay Films, Overnight Films, Morabito Picture Company, Barbarian Films, Magnet Media Group, Oceana Media Finance, Red Dragon Productions, Cinedigm, Magnet Media Productions, Number 13, Paramount Vantage
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