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Choke Movie Review
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Choke
The story of a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) and his deranged mother (Anjelica Huston), based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the film is one part social satire and one part off-kilter love story. Some people will find the goings-on hilarious, while ot...
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Cast & Crew
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Sam Rockwell as
Victor Mancini -
Anjelica Huston as
Ida Mancini -
Kelly Macdonald as
Paige Marshall -
Brad William Henke as
Denny -
Clark Gregg as
Lord High Charlie -
Joel Grey as
Phil - Kathryn Alexander as
Agnes / Mousy Girl - Alice Barrett as
Lanky Woman on Airplane - Teodorina Bello as
Jamaican Lady - Kate Blumberg as
Edwin's Wife - Jonah Bobo as
Young Victor - Willi Burke as
Deranged Socialite - Heather Burns as
Prim Professional - Paz de la Huerta as
Nico - Matt Gerald as
Det. Ryan - [ Viola Harris]] as
Eva Muller
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Actorn turned director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addicted med school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. |||| Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems ,when he's not haunting sexual addiction meetings to bed women, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants to gather money from unsuspecting strangers for his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston). But what happens when this messed up Colonial era theme park attendant finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother's doctor and how is he to tell her that he fears he is the next coming of Jesus Christ? Based on Chuck Palahniuk's (Fight Club) pitch-black comedic novel, Choke is adapted and directed by David Mamet alumni Clark Gregg, whose career spans stage, screen, and TV work as well as a screenplay credit for Robert Zemeckis's 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.
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