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Written for the Screen and Directed by: Clark Gregg
Based on the novel by: Chuck Palahniuk
Produced by: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell
Executive Produced by: Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Jonah Bobo and Clark Gregg

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 playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era 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.

I HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS TILL NOW BOY IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN SOME WAY THIS PARTICULAR PIECE HAS IMPACTED QUITE A BIT ON THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN IT. PERHAPS THERE HAVE BEEN BETTER WORKS IN THE PAST BUT WOULD YOU REMEMBER THEM AS MUCH AS THIS ONE? IN MY EXPERIENCE GOOD THINGS DO NOT ALWAYS SURFACE FIRST AND IN ENTERTAINMENT I WOULD SAY A LASTING IMPACT SAYS ALOT.

i also read the book a year or so ago and although the movie portrayed the story with little dignity, it was a fairly good watch. i often find that films somewhat destroy the character within a novel and then everyone rushes out to buy the book, which has probably been out for 5, 10 even 20 years, as if they just found out about it.

This movie Was a piece of shit compared to the book. you guys took a masterpiece and cut it up. you people ruined the ending of that movie.

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Wow, a few months after reading the book I come across Choke the movie. I can't wait to see it... from the trailers so for, its like almost everything i pictured while reading. I love Victor Mancini!
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How real and how sure are you my old friends that you wish the wonders of other stories as others are just looking for a wall to write on .Some call it art but I think if they call the work that i've seen I call it utter trash .Looking for cult classics funny sure would love to give you all southerns a example of a sacfrice totally free.Sam would work perfect for your joy's come and get it Oh wait what if the mentally disturbed sex addict becomes involved in your thoughts. Should we just burn the book and go back to CBS porns for a education oh holly ones.Ya I know no one here has any sack and if you want to stop choking swallow or spit it out!

soy juan, la peli me parece que va a ser una flor de porongaaa!!!!

I love Chuck and most stories he creates. Movies do take the imagination away from it all but this movie does a great job. I saw it at Sundance this winter and am excited to take all my friends to see it. They even used some of my favorite quotes from the book.

After seeing Rockwell in Confessions of a Dangerous mind I knew he was the perfect choice to play Victor.

I loved the book, I can't wait for this to come out. I wonder when we will start seeing trailers for this movie. I know Chuck Palahnuik once wrote that when a book is turned into a movie it takes the imagination away from the person who reads the book. Each person has their own perspective on how they see the characters in the book and how the story line works. But I have to say, I wish all his books would turn into movies, they would all equally become cult classics.

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