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Choke (2008)

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Movie Info


Genre

Comedy, Drama

Release Date

September 26, 2008 (Limited)

MPAA Rating

R

Duration

92 min.

Studio

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Official Site

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REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  Be the 1st!

Cast and Crew


Director

Clark Gregg

Producer

Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell

Screenwriter

Clark Gregg

Starring

  • Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini
  • Kelly Macdonald
  • Brad William Henke
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Clark Gregg
  • Heather Burns
  • Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Movie Story


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.

Movie Stills


Sam Rockwell stars as Victor Mancini in Fox Searchlight Pictures' Choke (2008). Photo credit by Jessica Miglio.
Gillian Jacobs, Sam Rockwell and Brad William Henke in Fox Searchlight Pictures' Choke (2008). Photo credit by Jessica Miglio.

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MOVIE REVIEWS BY CRITICS

“..not laugh-out-loud funny..”
by Stephen Holden [NY Times]
“.."CHOKE" tries to be dirty but manages merely to be dingy..”
by Kyle Smith [New York Post]
“..Some scenes are hilarious; others are somber..”
by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]

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