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Playing Hard

Sep 21, 2018 | IMDB 6.3

91 min Watch Now

Documentary

The human tale behind the creation of a blockbuster game.

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Stéphane Cardin, Luc Duchaine, Yannis Mallat, Jason Vandenberghe

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