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Choke (2008)
description written by member Zara:
With his mother (Anjelica Huston) suffering from Alzheimer's, medical school dropout Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) devises a plan to pay her hospital bills. At high-class restaurants, he pretends to choke, waits to be rescued and then later asks his saviors for money. In addition to being a con man, Victor is a sex addict who works at a colonial theme park. This film is based on the novel by cult literary phenom Chuck Palahniuk ( Fight Club).
| Release Date: | September 26th, 2008 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 89 minutes |
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Choke Movie Review by Zara  (4/13/2009) |
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So this Chuck Palahniuk is really big as a left-of-center writer whose main claim to fame was being the mind behind the book that the movie FIGHT CLUB came from. And any guy who can write a movie where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are the same dude is automatically cool in my book. For the most part, even without reading...
(complete Choke review by Zara)
I find that Chuck Palahniuk is becoming more and more like a smutty version of M. Night Shyamalan. His books and subsequent movies introduce us to anti-heroes trying to unravel the doomed social fabric that surrounds them; they question the fate of civilization while still rutting in the filth and deviance that surrounds...
(complete Choke review by Farmer Waltz)
| Choke Movie Review by Ben (10/8/2008) |
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"I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real."
-"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
We always want to find put why people treat themselves and/or treat others the way they do. Someone repulsive to us may also interest us as a case study of sorts. Is it because they do not feel good...
(complete Choke review by Ben)
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