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  • Starring: Anjelica Huston
  • Summary: Choke is a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor 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 and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. (Fox Searchlight)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 27
  3. Negative: 7 out of 27
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    It's an indelibly warped cartoon of lust and despair.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Mark Bell
    60
    The film feels flat. I don't know how to express my criticism much more than to say that things unfold before you, but you never really engage in the world beyond just watching it.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    CHOKE tries to be dirty but manages merely to be dingy.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 7 out of 14
  1. Zorro
    9
    i enjoyed it. i was in awe. how can i put this more specifically? i went to watch this movie without having read any reviews on it, and, like yourselves, i go to watch a movie on whether the good reviews outweigh the bad. higher chance of enjoying the movie, but then again lot's of ourselves see each other outside of the census. neither here or there. SO....it was great. From who he was, to why he was, to who he'll be, and i drove off trying to get to the shiny diamond island...… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Philipisawesome
    5
    Awesome trolling there Philip. Please don't feed this guy. Personally, I would avoid seeing a movie by an author I hate, but hey.. I9;m a different breed of cat.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SpaceC.
    3
    This movie is about a sex addict whose mom is dying from dementia. Its about as funny as it sounds. In the hands of a competent cast (with the possible exception of the lead), director and scriptwriter perhaps we would have been able to at least invest in the characters. However as is we are forced to sit through 89 minutes of drama surrounding characters we don't care about and a story too poorly told and blandly presented to follow.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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