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A Fox Searchlight Pictures Release
Choke (2008)
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Year of U.S. Release: 2008

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly McDonald, Brad Henke, Joel Grey.
Director: Clark Gregg
Screenwriter(s): Clark Gregg
Producer(s): Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng, Gary Ventimiglia
Ex. Producer(s): Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Prod. Company: ContraFilm, ATO Pictures
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Crime, Gangster
Runtime: 1 hr. 32 min.
U.S. Release Date: September 26, 2008 (Wide)
Rated Restricted for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
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A con-man regularly fakes choking in upscale restaurants, gets "saved," and collects checks from generous restaurant patrons.

arrowPlot 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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