Choke is an American black comedy of 2008 written and directed by Clark Gregg. Movie stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. The film was released on September 26, 2008 and DVD was released on February 17, 2009.
The film is based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It tells the story of a man working in a colonial-themed park, attending a sexual addiction recovery meeting, and deliberately choking on food in upscale restaurants so his "savior" will give him money out of sympathy and thus cover his hospital's Alzheimer's hospital bill.
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Plot
Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America. He works with his best friend, Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support her hospitalized mother, Ida, Victor gets another person deliberately feeding in a restaurant to earn money from her savior.
When he visits his mother one day, he meets Dr Paige Marshall, who takes care of him. He told Victor that her mother's condition was getting worse and they could try experimental stem cell techniques that would require harvesting cells from the newborn's baby's cord with Victor's genes. He convinces Victor to have sex with her so he can have his son and save his mother.
Victor never knew his father and was anxious to get information from his mother, but he never recognized him when he visited. He asks Denny to pose like him and ask him the question. Denny agrees and reveals that Victor's mother keeps a diary. Victor found it, but in Italian. Paige told Victor that she could read Italian and agreed to translate the diary.
Victor and Paige tried several times to have sex, but Victor could not maintain an erection. After discussing it with Denny, he realizes that he loves Paige. He then reveals to him that his mother may have fled Italy because he stole the foreskins of Jesus, and used his cells to conceive Victor, making him the Second Coming. He was reluctant to believe but, in the end, accepted Paige's statement. However, her mom finally recognizes her and tells her that she kidnaps her as a baby and he does not know who his biological parents are. When he tells her this, he feeds his chocolate pudding and accidentally strangles it to death.
While Paige tried to resuscitate Victor's mother, a ribbon hidden around her wrist fell into Victor's view, revealing that she was a patient at the hospital - not a doctor. Paige later revealed that she had been hospitalized many years ago, in a catatonic state, and fell in love with Victor through the stories her mother told of her. Since he was a former medical student, the nurses allowed him to wear a white coat, because it calmed him down. Paige, a volunteer patient, checked herself without saying goodbye to Victor.
After his mother's funeral, Victor boarded the plane. She goes to the bathroom and the door opens to reveal Paige joining her.
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Cast
- Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a sex addict who persuades people to pay for his mother's hospitalized care.
- Jonah Bobo as young Victor
- Anjelica Huston as Ida Mancini, Victor's mother.
- Kelly Macdonald as Paige Marshall
- Brad William Henke as Denny, Victor's best friend, a reformed sex addict. She was banished from her parents' home and became Victor's roommate.
- Paz de la Huerta as Nico
- Gillian Jacobs as Cherry Daiquiri/Beth, a stripper who falls in love with Denny.
- Clark Gregg as Mr. High Charlie
- Bijou Phillips as Ursula the milkmaid
- Joel Gray as Phil, member of Victor's sex addiction therapy group. Gray is the father-in-law of the director.
Writer Chuck Palahniuk made a cameo appearance. He can be seen on the same line as Sam Rockwell on the plane just before the movie ends.
Production
Write
In April 2001, following the success of the video and DVD of the film adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club book, the author sold feature film rights for his unpublished book Choke to Bandeira Entertainment at under producer Beau Flynn. Flynn chose Choki at the request of actor Clark Gregg, who had accepted the book as a writing assignment and became fascinated by the way Choke deals with "difficult topics childhood trauma and sexual drive in a painful and hysterical way. " Gregg worked on the book for five years, trying to adapt it faithfully. He decided to write his personal version of the story, believing that it would be one that Chuck Palahniuk would oppose. To Gregg's surprise, the author liked and supported the departure made in the Gregg version. Gregg describes the difficulty of writing the manuscript: "This is a difficult adaptation because like many of Chuck's works, he operates in a dark, dark satir world, but this one is his black romantic comedy, so getting the right tone takes me some time."
Filming
Gregg is attached to the Choke movie in his directorial debut. Production was originally scheduled for 2006, but Gregg was temporarily occupied with a key role on the TV comedy series The Old Adventure of Old Christine . In July 2007, Gregg acted as actor Sam Rockwell in the lead role, as well as supporting cast members. Production begins in the same month in New Jersey. Filming lasts 25 days with a budget of $ 3.4 million. Gregg has been acting with Rockwell in a drama, and the director believes that Rockwell will switch easily between dramatic moments and comedy in the movie. The main filming location is the dead Essex County Mental Hospital in Cedar Grove. The hospital is considered a critical location by filmmakers, who believe that production will not be taken without the found hospitals, due to the project's minimum budget.
Unlike the dark comedy that has a sustained tone, Gregg finds Choke more complicated, and that will lead between "a very dramatic moment" and "silly goofy". The director tries to find a way to combine the two elements, draw inspiration from Halbyby Harold and Maude (1971) and Being There (1979) and contemporary films such as Secretary (2002) and Sunlight Abadi from Mind Without Oranges (2004). In addition, the limited budget forces directors to consider economic measures during production.
Music
Radiohead's song "Reckoner" In Rainbows is used to play on top of the movie's end credits. Palahniuk said that the band would write a score for the film but a band spokesman later said that this was not true.
The soundtrack was officially released on iTunes on September 23, 2008.
Release
Choke premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2008, where she won a Special Jury Prize for a dramatic work by an ensemble player. After being received positively in screening, the film was purchased for $ 5 million by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. Choke is also the closing film for the 10th Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts on June 22, 2008.
The film was originally scheduled for a commercial release on August 1, 2008, but was postponed until September 26, 2008.
Critical response
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Reviewing the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 54% based on 137 reviews, with the consensus that "Despite the strong performance of Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, Choke is struggling to capture Chuck Novel Palahniuk's tone." Metacritic giving the film an average score of 47/100, based on 27 reviews, showing mixed or average reviews.
References
External links
- Choke on IMDb
- Choke in AllMovie
- Choke in Box Office Mojo
- Choke at Rotten Tomatoes
- Choke in Metacritic
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