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CHOKE

Director: Clark Gregg
Writers: Clark Gregg (screenplay)
Chuck Palahniuk (novel)
Genre: Comedy - Drama
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

CAST:

Kathryn Alexander … Agnes / Mousy Girl
Teodorina Bello … Jamaican Lady
Kate Blumberg … Edwin’s Wife
Jonah Bobo … Young Victor
Willi Burke … Deranged Socialite
Heather Burns … Internet Date / Gwen
David Wolos-Fonteno … Edwin (as David Fonteno)
Matt Gerald … Detective Ryan
Clark Gregg … Lord High Charlie
Joel Grey … Phil
Viola Harris … Eva Muller
Brad William Henke … Denny
Paz de la Huerta … Nico
Michelle Hurst … Shapely Nurse
Anjelica Huston … Ida J. Mancini
Gillian Jacobs … Beth / Cherry Daquiri
Jen Jones … Old Lady with Note
Jordan Lage … Mob Member #1
Kelly Macdonald … Paige Marshall
Matt Malloy … Detective Foushee
Mary B. McCann … Detective Dorfman
Alice Barrett … Lanky Woman on Airplane (as Alice Barrett Mitchell)
Marty Murphy … Second Trooper
Neil Pepe … Zoo Security Guard
Bijou Phillips … Ursula
Peggy Pope … Sister Angela
Denise Raimi … Pretty Foster Mom
Donald Rizzo … Guard Captain Norm
Judith Roberts … Elegant Lady (as Judith Anna Roberts)
Sam Rockwell … Victor Mancini
Yolonda Ross … Cute Teacher
Mike S. Ryan … Lonnie
Solo Scott … Mob Member #2
Suzanne Shepherd … Waitress
David Shumbris … First Trooper
Sebastian Sozzi … Tito
Kate Udall … Tall Nurse
Melinda Wade … Mob Leader
Isiah Whitlock Jr. … Detective Palmer

SYNOPSIS:

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a sex-addicted med-school dropout who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Anjelica Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor 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.

TRIVIA:

Cameo: [Chuck Palahniuk] the author of the book, is the man sitting next to Victor on the plane at the end of the movie.

Shot in three weeks.