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Plot:
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 (Sam Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout,
who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Anjelica
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 (Brad William Henke) and his mother’s
beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald),
to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine
parentage is lost forever.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Co:
ATO Pictures
Contrafilm
In Association With
Aramid Entertainment Fund
Release Date:
September 26, 2008 (Limited)
RELATED LINKS__________
Wikipedia - Movie Info
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Director Info
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Book Info
en.wikipedia.org
Director's Blog
my.foxsearchlight.com
Chuck Palahniuk's Blog
www.chuckpalahniuk.net
Twitter Page
www.twitter.com
Netflix Page
www.netflix.com
Rotten Tomatoes Page
www.rottentomatoes.com
Google Page
www.google.com
Youtube Page
www.youtube.com
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