Choke
A sex-addicted med-school dropout keeps his increasingly deranged mother in an expensive private hospital by working days as a historical reenactor.
Written for the Screen and Directed by: Clark Gregg
Based on the novel by: Chuck Palahniuk
Produced by: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell
Executive Produced by: Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Jonah Bobo and Clark Gregg
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. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era 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 fathers identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mothers beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.
