Choke Movie

Director: Clark Gregg

Writers : Clark Gregg (screenplay)
Chuck Palahniuk (novel)

Release Date: 30 October 2008 (Australia)

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Cast :
1. Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a sex addict who cons people in order to fund the care of his ospitalized mother
2. Anjelica Huston as Ida Mancini, Victor's mother.
3. Kelly Macdonald as Paige Marshall.
4. Brad William Henke as Denny, Victor's best friend, a reformed sex addict. He is thrown out of his parent's house and becomes Victor's roommate.
5. Gillian Jacobs as Beth / Cherry Daquiri, a stripper who falls for Denny.
6. Chuck Palahniuk makes a cameo appearance. Palahniuk can be seen in the same row as Sam Rockwell on the plane just before the film ends.

Original Sound Track :
# Radiohead - “Reckoner”
# Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - “Satan Said Dance”
# The Fiery Furnaces - “Navy Nurse”
# Ben Kweller - “The Rules”
# The Twilight Singers - “There’s Been An Accident”
# Rogue Wave - “Lake Michigan”
# Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Palindromes)
# Alap Momin (a.k.a. The Oktopus)

Plot
Victor Mancini (Rockwell) is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America. He works with his best friend, Denny (Brad William Henke), who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his hospitalized mother (Huston), Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to get money from his rescuers.

When he visits his mother one day he meets Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald) taking care of her. She tells Victor that his mother's condition is worsening and that they could try an experimental stem cell technique but for it to work it would require harvesting cells from the umbilical cord of a new born baby with Victor's genes. She convinces Victor to have sex with her so she can have his child and save his mother.

Victor never knew his father and is anxious to obtain the information from his mother but she never recognises him when he visits and so he asks Denny to pose as him and ask her questions. Denny agrees and reveals that Victor's mother kept a diary. Victor finds it, but it is in Italian. Paige tells Victor she can read Italian and agrees to translate the diary.

Victor and Paige try several times to have sex but Victor cannot maintain an erection and after discussing it with Denny he realizes he loves Paige, Paige reveals to him that his mother may have fled Italy because she stole Jesus' foreskin, and use cells to conceive Victor, making him the second coming. He is reluctant to believe but in the end believes Paige. However his mother finally recognizes him and tells him that she stole him as a baby and she has no idea who his real parents are, as she tells him this he feeds her chocolate pudding and accidentally chokes her. She dies.

While Paige is trying to resuscitate Victor's mother, a hidden band around her wrist falls into Victor's view, revealing that she is actually a patient in the hospital, not a doctor. Paige then reveals that she was admitted to the hospital years ago, in a catatonic state, and fell in love with Victor through the stories his mother told her about him. As a former medical student, the nurses allowed her to wear a white coat, as it calmed her down. Paige was a voluntary patient and she checks herself out without saying goodbye to Victor.

After his mother's funeral Victor is on a plane, he goes to the bathroom and the door opens to reveal Paige joining him in the bathroom.

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