Choke

Name: Choke
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 26, 2008
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Anjelica Huston

2008

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Choke

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: September 26, 2008 | R

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 ColonialChoke 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

Director: Clark Gregg

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Owen Gleiberman

It's an indelibly warped cartoon of lust and despair. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

A fantastical sex farce, and a highly amusing one at that, without being the least bit momentous or memorable. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Some stretches are very funny, although the laughter is undermined by the desperation and sadness of the situations. Read full review

Robert Abele

As the story of a wallowing pig, Choke is often pretty entertaining, but when it comes to where-do-I-come-from poignancy, it can't always keep from gagging. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Cluttered, flavorless Choke, which crams the novel's nervy narration into an irritating voiceover, and leaps around in time and space with all the attention span of an ADD-addled child. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Mancini's character boils down to a lot of self-loathing and unresolved mommy issues – which is as tedious as it sounds. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous. Read full review

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Zorro

Oct 5, 2008

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 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