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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #73 Choke

Published on January 29, 2008

#73. Choke

Director/Writer: Clark Gregg
Producers: Johnathan Dorfman (Joshua), Temple Fennell, Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson (Conrail)
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Gist: Based on the Chuck Palahniuk book, “Choke” 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 attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother’s (Huston) care at a private mental hospital.

Fact: This is the directorial debut of actor Clark Gregg.

See It: Those who have kept tabs on Sam Rockwell might just adore him in this Palahniuk creation.

Release Date/Status?: Picked up at Sundance for a cool 5 million, expect this to find theaters sometime this summer.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).