Playing God

Playing God (2021) is a crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. A brother-and-sister con duo hatch a scheme that strains credulity even by their own standards: hire a veteran grifter to impersonate the Almighty for a grieving billionaire willing to pay any price for a face-to-face with his Creator. Directed by Scott Brignac, starring Luke Benward, Hannah Kasulka, Michael McKean and Alan Tudyk.

The con should be clean and quick. It isn't. McKean's improvised deity develops opinions, takes the role personally, and the whole enterprise starts careening in directions nobody planned. What began as a payday becomes a pressure cooker where faith, grief and fraud get tangled together.

The film earns its oddity — it's genuinely funnier when it leans into how absurd the premise is, and sharper when it remembers there's a man in real pain underneath the hustle. Stream Playing God (2021) online on iFILM.