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The second film adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel, Choke stars Sam Rockwell, Angelica Huston, and Kelly MacDonald.

Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child. Victor grew up while going from one foster home to another. Victor's mother was found to be unfit to raise Victor. Several times throughout his childhood his mother would kidnap him from his various foster parents. They would eventually be caught and he would again be remanded over to the government child welfare agency.

In the present day setting of the book, Victor is now a man in his mid-twenties who left medical school in order to find work to support his mother who is now in a nursing home. He cannot afford the care that his mother is receiving so he resorts to being a con man. His "con" is to go to restaurants and midway through his meal, he forces himself to choke on his food, luring a "good Samaritan" into saving his life. He keeps a detailed list of everyone who saves him and sends them frequent letters about fictional bills he is unable to pay. The people feel so sorry for him that they give him money, send him cards and letters asking him about how he's doing, and even continue to send him money to help him with the bills.

While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him. It is because of this and his constant moves from one home to another that has left Victor unable to form lasting and stable relationships with women. Victor therefore finds himself getting sexual gratification from women in sexual addiction support groups.



I loved Fight Club. I can't wait to see this. Sam Rockwell, most recognized as Wild Bill from The Green Mile, is a good actor, in my opinion.

I'm not a fan of Rockwell, and don't think much of the trailer. Read the book though.

I read the book and thought it was good. I'm looking forward to seeing this on screen. I would have preffered Survivor from the Palahniuk novels as a movie.

LOVED FIGHT CLUB!!

I read the book about six months ago or so and enjoyed it a lot.

The other day, I saw the trailer for this movie and for some reason, it seems like it'll be a lot worse than the book in my opinion. Fight Club was a perfect adaption, everything was right; directing, acting, tone, etc. Now, I can't judge everything from the trailer, but from what I saw, I wasn't all that impressed with the way things looked. The actors seemed... wrong to me.

Anyway, I just got a negative vibe from the trailer, but I'm not losing all hope just yet. I'll definitely go see it with an open mind and let you all know what I thought of it at that point.

Hope it'll be good.

whens it coming out?

I loved Choke, and I'm mostly figuring that the movie won't be as vile and "out there" as the novel. Which is unfortunate, since Palahniuk is all about shock, awe and disgust. I just don't think that Hollywood is going to allow such a raunchy book to be translated on the screen with as much....what's the word here?

Originally posted by Quincy
I loved Choke, and I'm mostly figuring that the movie won't be as vile and "out there" as the novel. Which is unfortunate, since Palahniuk is all about shock, awe and disgust. I just don't think that Hollywood is going to allow such a raunchy book to be translated on the screen with as much....what's the word here?

They said that about Fight Club.

Fincher said that the biggest shock about that movie is that it even got made. I don't think the censorship associations "got" what it was saying by the time it was out.

Hopefully Choke slips through the radar.

-AC

The new redband trailer was released for the movie.

And good news to all fans of the book - the rape scene seems to be intact!

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/choke/red-band-trailer

Funny trailer, but completely misses the premise of the film.

Originally posted by Impediment
The second film adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel, Choke stars Sam Rockwell, Angelica Huston, and Kelly MacDonald.

Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child. Victor grew up while going from one foster home to another. Victor's mother was found to be unfit to raise Victor. Several times throughout his childhood his mother would kidnap him from his various foster parents. They would eventually be caught and he would again be remanded over to the government child welfare agency.

In the present day setting of the book, Victor is now a man in his mid-twenties who left medical school in order to find work to support his mother who is now in a nursing home. He cannot afford the care that his mother is receiving so he resorts to being a con man. His "con" is to go to restaurants and midway through his meal, he forces himself to choke on his food, luring a "good Samaritan" into saving his life. He keeps a detailed list of everyone who saves him and sends them frequent letters about fictional bills he is unable to pay. The people feel so sorry for him that they give him money, send him cards and letters asking him about how he's doing, and even continue to send him money to help him with the bills.

While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him. It is because of this and his constant moves from one home to another that has left Victor unable to form lasting and stable relationships with women. Victor therefore finds himself getting sexual gratification from women in sexual addiction support groups.



I loved Fight Club. I can't wait to see this. Sam Rockwell, most recognized as Wild Bill from The Green Mile, is a good actor, in my opinion.


I love Sam Rockwell, very talented actor. I've also liked some of Kelly MacDonald's work also. This looks like it is going to be very good.

Enjoyed the trailer, but probably going to read the book first.

Comes out this Friday. I can't wait to see it.

Sounds and looks like a movie I'll enjoy.

Once again, this is another situation where . . . . I don't need to see it, I lived it.

You touched an old woman's woo-woo? awesome

Originally posted by Impediment
You touched an old woman's woo-woo? awesome

Great, now I know the whole premise of the movie, thanks for ruining it for us.

Originally posted by Impediment
You touched an old woman's woo-woo? awesome euro

Sounds like a title for a porno

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
Once again, this is another situation where . . . . I don't need to see it, I lived it.

I want your life, dude!

mmmmmm Sam Rockwell

I can't wait to see this, read the book a few yrs ago - pretty good read

Originally posted by Robtard
Great, now I know the whole premise of the movie, thanks for ruining it for us.

I'm picking up some sarcasm. hmm

Really liked the book, the trailer seems underwhelming but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Saw the movie last night and I gotta say, it was WAY better than I thought it would be. It was funny and disturbing... it did the book justice.

I read the book a couple years ago. I loved it as much as Fight Club. I can't wait to see the movie.

Originally posted by Impediment
I'm picking up some sarcasm. hmm

Take your sarcasm-meter in for repair, you should have picked up a lot of sarcasm.

I caught this last night. Wasn't as good as the book, as I expected, and wasn't as good of an adaption as Fight Club. That said, it was still fairly accurate and the acting was pretty good; I like Sam Rockwell. The ending is completely different from the book, however, and for me, that kind of ruined it.