Choke (2008)

Choke (2008)




Synopsis

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.

What Critics Say


Sundance favorite Choke is an outrageous, raunchy comedy about a sex addict, played with lots of juice by Sam Rockwell.
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  • NEWSMAKERS: Mag Chokes on Led Zep Story

    SANTA MONICA, Calif. March 28, 2000 -- Led Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page did not don a robe, cast a Satanic spell and otherwise stand idly by whilst bandmate John Bonham choked to death on his own vomit. Yes, the British magazine Ministry today took it all back -- the robe thing, the spell thing, the standing-by-idly thing -- and apologized to Page for a story that claimed the guitarist acted right odd the night of his chum's death.

    Unfortunately, the magazine could not take back the thing about Bonham choking to death on his (Bonham's) vomit. That part really happened.

    It was Sept. 25, 1980, when the hard-living drummer died at Page's mansion near London, essentially ending the hard-rocking Led Zeppelin unit of "Stairway to Heaven" fame. The Ministry article appeared in its August/September 1999 issue.

    In addition to the apology, the mag was ordered to pay Page dam



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