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Choke
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R,1hr 32min
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September 26, 2008
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Fox Searchlight
Synopsis: Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston) in a high-end extended-care facility for her extreme dementia. But what happens when this messed up Colonial-era theme-park employee finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother's doctor -- and how can he give ... Full Synopsis
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It should probably be noted up front that Choke is not a movie for the squeamish, the faint of heart, the easily embarrassed, or virtually anyone who isn't game for watching modern life's ugliest and most sexually explicit truths projected unapologetically onscreen. But then, a viewer with such an uncomfortably modest predisposition should probably know better than to sit down and watch a movie like ... Full Review
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Brad William Henke, left, and Sam Rockwell in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Sam Rockwell, left, and Brad William Henke in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Sam Rockwell, left, and Brad William Henke in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Sam Rockwell, left, and Kelly MacDonald in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Anjelica Huston in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Brad William Henke, center, in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
Clark Gregg in "Choke" (Fox Searchlight)
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