Choke is a 2008 American black comedy film written and directed by Clark Gregg, based on the 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.

Destitute, a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) fakes choking in expensive restaurants, whose patrons "save" him, then fund his hospitalized mother's care.

Sam Rockwell gives yet another brilliant performance that is unlikely to be recognized anywhere. The problem is "Choke" should have been a GREAT film. In "Choke," Rockwell is Victor Mancini, a man with massively unresolved mommy issues from a childhood of abandonment and inconsistent parenting.

Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks.

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Sep 26, 2008 · To visit the absurdist world of “Choke,” the second film adapted from a novel by the “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk, requires that you dive through the looking glass into …

Sep 26, 2008 · Brought to the screen with stringent loyalty by debut director Clark Gregg, Choke stars Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a med school dropout who avoids life through casual sex binging and...

Sep 26, 2008 · “Choke,” which is based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name (he also authored “Fight Club” and “Rant”), involves a sex addict named Victor (Rockwell). His formerly free-spirited...

Choke is a film directed by Clark Gregg with Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad William Henke .... Year: 2008. Original title: Choke.

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), 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.