Choke (2008)
Directed by Clark Gregg
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Black Comedy, Sex Comedy |
Release Date - Sep 26, 2008 (USA) |
Run Time - 89 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jeremy Wheeler
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston) in a high-end extended-care facility for her extreme dementia. But what happens when this messed up Colonial-era theme-park employee finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother's doctor -- and how can he give their relationship a try when she tells him he's 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' 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.
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choking, sex-addict, con/scam, support-group, mental-institution, mother, theme-park, Alzheimer's-Disease