The adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s “Choke” starring Sam Rockwell as a Colonial Williamsburg theme park historical reenactor who’s also a sex-addict and feigning choking victim, has moved to a September 26 release date. EW calls it a “dirty-minded satirical-psychotic comedy,” and the film, directed by actor Clark Gregg, also stars Kelly Macdonald (“No Country For Old Men”), Anjelica Huston and Brad Henke as Rockwell’s bumbling sidekick buddy.
The trailer features Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!’s “Satan Said Dance” and Ben Kweller’s “The Rules.” The soundtrack also features Radiohead, the Fiery Furnaces and the film boasts a score by ex-Shudder To Think guitarist, turned composer Nathan Larson. The poster and more clips from the film can be seen here.
Official synopsis: Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Anjelica Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Brad Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.