The idea is good but is not that well executed. Sam Rockwell is a really talented actor and Kelly Macdonald is a great surprise but still, not as good as I tought it would be. In general the idea must be really good in a book.
Description: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 motActor-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 working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg 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 father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.... (more)(less)
"Directors: Clark Gregg
Date recorded: 21st October 2012
Date watched: 17th November 2012, 12.390am
Watched before?: No, first watch.
Thoughts: Well, a minute or so in and I'm not interested so far.
OK, it gets a little better… not fantastically though. Opening scenes are juvenile. A few others during the film too. "