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Choke (2008)

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Release Date: September 26, 2008 (Limited)
On DVD: February 17, 2009
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Director: Clark Gregg
Writer: Clark Gregg
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Kelly Macdonald
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Official site: foxsearchlight.com/choke
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...

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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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