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Choke

Release Date: Friday, September 26, 2008

A con-man regularly fakes choking in upscale restaurants, gets "saved," and collects checks from generous restaurant patrons.

Director: Clark Gregg

Starring: Sam Rockwell Anjelica Huston Kelly McDonald Brad Henke Joel Grey

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 m

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A con-man regularly fakes choking in upscale restaurants, gets "saved," and collects checks from generous restaurant patrons.

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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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The film's director Clark Gregg last directed Trust Me. The film's writer Clark Gregg last wrote Trust Me.

Director
Clark Gregg
Screenwriter
Producers
Mike S. Ryan
Derrick Tseng
Gary Ventimiglia

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Parent Rating
R Restricted for strong sexual content, nudity and language
Runtime
1 hr, 32 m
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Language
English

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Choke was released in on Friday, September 26, 2008. There were 6 other movies released on the same date, including Nights in Rodanthe, Eagle Eye and The Lucky Ones.

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