Release Date
September 26, 2008 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
February 17, 2009 (Buy on Amazon)
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Running Time
89 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language
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... Full synopsis »
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I navigated my way to FilmJabber today and a realization swept over me: I hadn't written a review for Choke yet. How could I have not written a review for a movie I saw over two weeks ago? Oh yeah... I went to Mexico the next morning and then proceeded to get miserably sick for the subsequent week. Silly me.
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