
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.
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| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenSam Rockwell's charm gives this pic its deserved kudos. |
| LivePDXKimberly GadetteSeduction, abduction and obstruction make for one hell of a slightly inedible, incredible Oedipal romp through the beastly world of novelist Chuck Palahniuk. |
| Washington TimesKelly Jane TorranceChoke is sometimes preposterous but always very funny. More to the point, it's always to the point. |
| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressCertainly there's a nihilist streak on Palahniuk's sleeve, but as Clark Gregg's adaptation of his 2001 novel shows us, up that sleeve seems to rest the heart of a tortured romantic. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Choke" is the most assertively anti-mainstream film of the year, and to that end it succeeds as a positive form of cinematic/social rebellion. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedI 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. |
| MTVKurt Loder...a digital-video indie with a skuzzy, festering charm that almost papers over the chinks in its shambolic plot. |
| HollywoodChicago.comAdam FendelmanStanding and pacing during our interview, Sam Rockwell made a hilarious theatrical moment out of his frustration while lighting a cigarette. He talked about his latest characterization, which is a challenging performance channeling an Oedipal personality. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIsn't as visually rich or as thematically layered as Fight Club (1999), but it's more immediately gratifying, and equally twisted. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealNo Fight Club, but in a world of far too few Chuck Palahniuk movie adaptations, it suffices. |