Choke, one of my favorite Chuck Palahniuk books, is being made into a full motion picture. You might not know who Palahniuk is and what else he has written; he wrote Fight Club. All of his books have the same satirical nuances throughout that poke fun at the issues people face by blowing them way out of proportion. This movie hopefully shouldn't be an exception. Here is an excerpt from IGN's page for the movie.
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 (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (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 (Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.
I think the movie sounds spot on with the book and might hold up just like Fight Club did.
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