Choke

[Brian in Mesa]

Choke

Release Date: September 26, 2008 (limited)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Clark Gregg
Screenwriter: Clark Gregg
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, nudity and language)
Website: ChokeonThis.net

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Kelly Macdonald

Plot Summary: Actor-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.

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[Bada0Bing]

I read the book, this ought to be a really sick movie. Sam Rockwell should make a pretty good Victor Mancini. I'm interested in seeing it.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I read the book, this ought to be a really sick movie. Sam Rockwell should make a pretty good Victor Mancini. I'm interested in seeing it.

i didn't read the book, but I've got to assume the movie went a little soft. I mean, it wasn't Snow White, but it wasn't nearly as twisted as the film adaptation of Fight Club or the book Snuff, two other Chuck Palhuwhateverhisnmaesis' books.

 

[Bada0Bing]

Recently watched it. Black comedy is my favorite genre, so I was able to enjoy it even though it was pretty weak and amateurish.

You're best to forget that this is any way associated to Fight Club or Chuck Palahniuk or you'll probably be disappointed.

i didn't read the book, but I've got to assume the movie went a little soft. I mean, it wasn't Snow White, but it wasn't nearly as twisted as the film adaptation of Fight Club or the book Snuff, two other Chuck Palhuwhateverhisnmaesis' books.

Way way soft. This needed to be stretched out to two hours. They glossed over the entire psychological aspect of it, which was the best part.

 

[Beaver]

Finally saw this. If I had not read the book beforehand, I probably wouldn't have liked it. Britta's boobs were nice.