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Choke

2008

Clark Gregg

Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad William Henke ...

5.5

3,451

Comedy. Drama An adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s (Fight Club) novel, CHOKE is the sardonic story about mother and son relationship, fear of aging, sexualaddiction, and the dark side of historical 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 reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Though there are moments of viable dark humor, it feels glib and lacks the sardonic quality of the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Tom Long Detroit News	"A goofy blend of quirky characters, strange situations and wrong relationships (...) Choke is a conscious oddball of a movie"
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"I don't know what to tell you about a dismal bucket of nauseating swill called 'Choke', except to warn that if you spend hard-earned money to sit through it, you deserve to do exactly what the title implies"

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