Choke (2008)

Clark Gregg directed and apapted Chuck Palhniuk's Choke. Starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Kelly Macdonald & Clark Gregg. Choke opens September 26, 2008.

Summary

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Anjelica Huston), in an expensive private mental hospital by working days as a historical reenactor. At night he runs a scam where he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor must enlist the aid of his best friend, Denny (Brad William Henke), a recovering chronic masturbator, and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), to solve this mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly McDonald, Brad Henke, Joel Grey
Directed by: Clark Gregg
Produced by: Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng, Gary Ventimiglia
Running Time: 1 hr. 32 min.
Release Date: August 1st, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R
Distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures