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The film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, tells the story of a con-man (Sam Rockwell) struggling to pay his mother's (Anjelica Huston) hospital bills. Choke premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize for work with an ensemble cast.
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Fast Facts
- Director: Clark Gregg
- Producers: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Temple Fennell
- Screenwriter: Clark Gregg
- Studio: FOX Searchlight Pictures
- Release date: September 26, 2008
- MPAA rating: R
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Based on Palahniuk's novel of the same name
- Fight Club was also based on a Palahniuk novel
- Budget: $3.4 million
- Sold for $5 million at Sundance to Fox Searchlight
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Background and Synopsis
In the film, first-time director but multi-time actor Clark Gregg (The New Adventures of Old Christine) adapts Chuck Palahniuk's 2001 novel, but unlike the 1999 David Fincher adaptation of Fight Club turns the author's novel into a comedy. Sam Rockwell plays often broke con-man Victor Mancini who just wants to be loved—so, to find this love, he goes to restaurants and fakes choking to death, just so he can be held by a stranger. But he also wants the money of those who save him, in order to pay the hospital bills of his mentally ill mother, played by Anjelica Huston. Victor is also a sex addict, so he attends twelve-step meetings, although he usually spends most of the time in the bathroom with fellow sex-addict Nico (Paz de la Huerta). Throughout it all, Victor's day job is at a restored colonial village for tourists, where Lord High Charlie (played by Gregg) runs the show. When Victor meets new nurse Paige Marshall (Kelly MacDonald) at his mother's hospital, they concoct a plan to save her—a plan which requires frequent coitus in the hospital's chapel. -
Cast Information
- Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini
- Anjelica Huston as Ida Mancini
- Kelly Macdonald as Paige Marshall
- Brad William Henke as Denny
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In a day. FML. I'm gonna pull an Eminem and choke in front of everyone.
@mariabriones | November 10, 2009 10:33 AM -
#BestFeeling Is having my Dreads Pulled with a slight choke to the neck while Im nibbling ur Finger & gettin smashed from BeHiiind! Owwww
@QiwiRed | November 10, 2009 10:20 AM -
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This sounds gay but reading the summary of Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' made me choke up :) Scrooge seems like an awesome guy.
@annisadea | November 10, 2009 09:49 AM -
Nah, all of a sudden Sea breaks Lomo's line with one unified army and contains him from the hill above natural choke. This is like death...
@kvilx | November 10, 2009 09:45 AM
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Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow d...
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View All Choke Questions (17) | Ask a QuestionWould you die from being choked for 30 seconds. (Like in the movies) (3 Answers)I think that the idea is that the windpipe is being crushed when someone is being choked in the movies. It only takes a few seconds to do this, you ... read more
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In a day. FML. I'm gonna pull an Eminem and choke in front of everyone.
@mariabriones | November 10, 2009 10:33 AM -
#BestFeeling Is having my Dreads Pulled with a slight choke to the neck while Im nibbling ur Finger & gettin smashed from BeHiiind! Owwww
@QiwiRed | November 10, 2009 10:20 AM -
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This sounds gay but reading the summary of Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' made me choke up :) Scrooge seems like an awesome guy.
@annisadea | November 10, 2009 09:49 AM -
Nah, all of a sudden Sea breaks Lomo's line with one unified army and contains him from the hill above natural choke. This is like death...
@kvilx | November 10, 2009 09:45 AM
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Choke on Amazon | View All
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Choke - $14.95
For Vanessa, a low-income housing complex in the middle of the desert in El Mirage, Arizona, represents all that is wrong with her life. Her neighbors get it on all night long, she sees an abusive husband kill his wife, and then himsel...
Amazon -
Choke Canyon - $19.98
To Dr. David Lowell (Stephen Collins, 7TH HEAVEN), Choke Canyon was the only location where he could conduct a vital experiment involving Halley's Comet and the production of safe,inexhaustible power. But to the Pilgrim Corporation's ruthle...
Amazon -
Choke - $7.99
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion--first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key Westís Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong marri...
Amazon -
Choke - $27.98
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. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date...
Amazon -
Choke - $14.95
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow d...
Amazon
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Choke on Twitter Powered by Twitter
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In a day. FML. I'm gonna pull an Eminem and choke in front of everyone.
@mariabriones | November 10, 2009 10:33 AM -
#BestFeeling Is having my Dreads Pulled with a slight choke to the neck while Im nibbling ur Finger & gettin smashed from BeHiiind! Owwww
@QiwiRed | November 10, 2009 10:20 AM -
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This sounds gay but reading the summary of Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' made me choke up :) Scrooge seems like an awesome guy.
@annisadea | November 10, 2009 09:49 AM -
Nah, all of a sudden Sea breaks Lomo's line with one unified army and contains him from the hill above natural choke. This is like death...
@kvilx | November 10, 2009 09:45 AM
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Choke on Amazon | View All
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Choke - $14.95
For Vanessa, a low-income housing complex in the middle of the desert in El Mirage, Arizona, represents all that is wrong with her life. Her neighbors get it on all night long, she sees an abusive husband kill his wife, and then himsel...
Amazon -
Choke Canyon - $19.98
To Dr. David Lowell (Stephen Collins, 7TH HEAVEN), Choke Canyon was the only location where he could conduct a vital experiment involving Halley's Comet and the production of safe,inexhaustible power. But to the Pilgrim Corporation's ruthle...
Amazon -
Choke - $7.99
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion--first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key Westís Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong marri...
Amazon -
Choke - $27.98
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. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date...
Amazon -
Choke - $14.95
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow d...
Amazon
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Choke Photos and Media
- Empire Movie News: First Still From Choke (December 3, 2007)
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