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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Clark Gregg
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Actors:
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Kelly Macdonald,
Heather Burns,
Paz de la Huerta,
Viola Harris,
Sam Rockwell,
Anjelica Huston,
Brad William Henke,
Jonah Bobo,
Clark Gregg,
Joel Grey
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)74.5
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Plot Summary:
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Conqueror Mancini, a sex-addicted med-instil dropout, who keeps his increasingly wacky mother, Ida, in an priceless withdrawn medical hospital on working days as a recorded re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme commons. At eventide, Champion runs a scam close deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to give form parasitic relationships with the moneyed patrons who "retain" him. When, in a rare lucid upward, Ida reveals that she has withheld the nauseating truth of his father's accord, Victor enlists the grant of his best chum, Denny and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr.... Paige Marshall, to make plain the mystery before the actuality of his by any chance parentage is lost forever.
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Choke
In the land of the brutally screwed-up modern male, Chuck Palahniuk is prince. Neuroses, addictions, dangerous fantasies about violent soap salesmen - Chuck's books have 'em all. David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of Palahniuk's 'Fight Lodge' caught the exhilarating nihilism that runs totally the writer's on and channelled it into a ferocious cult masterpiece - half cartoon, half fable - about emasculation, consumption and new-man anxiety. Garrotte, actor-director Clark Gregg's adaptation of Palahniuk's 2001 unusual, reaches for another aspect of the author's writing: that melody of queasy lowering comedy which revels in imbecilic excess and semi-ironic receipts-excuse. Choke is a blur with more dysfunction than 'The Jeremy Kyle Show', but absent is the engagemen...
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