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Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston are starring in Choke an adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel that marks the directorial debut of actor Clark Gregg, who also wrote the adaptation.
Published in 2001, Choke was the first New York Times best-seller from Palahniuk, who penned Fight Club.
The black comedy follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor and runs a con scheme that involves deliberately choking in restaurants and then attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother’s (Huston) care at a private mental hospital.
He is forced to address his intimacy issues when he falls in love with his mother’s doctor and discovers that he is unable to perform with the one woman he actually likes.
Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men) and Brad Henke (In the Valley of Elah) also star in the film.
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