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Choke - Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg

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Movie propaganda

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school drop-out, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private 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 (Brad William Henke) and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film dark comedy theme park sex addict re-enactor history hospital parent

Persons of interest

Sam Rockwell .... Victor Mancini
Anjelica Huston .... Ida Mancini
Kelly Macdonald .... Paige Marshall
Brad William Henke .... Denny
Kathryn Alexander .... Agnes
Jonah Bobo .... Young Victor
Paz de la Huerta .... Nico
Matt Gerald .... Detective Ryan
Clark Gregg .... Lord High Charlie
Joel Grey .... Phil
Viola Harris .... Eva Muller
Gillian Jacobs .... Beth
Bijou Phillips .... Ursula
Peggy Pope .... Sister Angela
Donald Rizzo .... Guard Captain Norm
Mike S. Ryan .... Lonnie
Sebastian Sozzi .... Tito
David Wolos-Fonteno .... Edwin
Chuck Palahniuk .... Author
Clark Gregg .... Screenwriter
Clark Gregg .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Choke official movie site
Choke film production notes
Choke QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Sundance Film Festival 2008: Won: Special Jury Prize Dramatic (Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke); Nominated: Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (Clark Gregg )