Choke trailer!

By Dave Davis

Posted 18 years ago

I didn’t think much of the novel CHOKE (sorry, Palahniuk maniacs), and yet I’m curious about the movie based on the book. That’s largely due to the people involved, namely the great Sam Rockwell, Kelly MacDonald and Anjelica Huston. Plus it’s adapted and directed by actor Clark Gregg, a Mamet regular (and the guy trying to get an appointment with Tony Stark).

The story follows a con artist who pretends to gag at upscale restaurants so he can latch onto his Heimlich saviors and bleed them. He offsets this with working at a Colonial “re-enactor” to fund treatment for his mentally handicapped mom. In between, he finds time to immerse himself in therapy and unhealthy sexual relationships.

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Dave Davis

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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

Likes: Mass Effect, ginger, the 1960s Batman TV show, diversity, Fallout, non-iron read more shirts, Angela Bassett, comics, funk, making and/or consuming satisfying meals, xenomorphs, the Elric saga, weird art, volume, She-Hulk, freeze-frame credits, my goofy cats, green things, transdimensional travel, vindication

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