Directed by:
Clark GreggScreenplay:
Clark GreggCinematography:
Tim OrrComposer:
Nathan LarsonCast:
Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Heather Burns, Paz de la Huerta, Gillian Jacobs, Bijou Phillips, Clark Gregg (more)Plots(1)
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a dropout from medical school, has devised the perfect con to pay for his ailing mother’s (Anjelica Huston) private hospital care - pretend to choke in a restaurant and the strangers who “save you” feels responsible for your life - run the choke scam a couple of hundred times and milk the kindness of strangers into a healthy cash flow. Between choking gigs, Victor works as a “historical interpreter” at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action and visits his deranged mother in her exclusive mental hospital. When Victor discovers his mother’s Alzheimer disease hides a startling truth about his parentage, his carefully constructed life of “sex without love” topples and he find himself falling for his mother’s enigmatic doctor (Kelly MacDonald). (Wild Bunch Distribution)
(more)Cast
Sam Rockwell
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Box of Moon Light (1996)
Anjelica Huston
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Kelly Macdonald
UK
Best movies:
Trainspotting (1996)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Brad William Henke
USA
Best movies:
Star Trek (2009)
North Country (2005)
Split (2016)
Heather Burns
USA
Best movies:
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
You've Got Mail (1998)
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Paz de la Huerta
USA
Best movies:
The Cider House Rules (1999)
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Enter the Void (2009)
Gillian Jacobs
USA
Best movies:
Gardens of the Night (2008)
Injustice (2021)
Fear Street Part 2: 1978 (2021)
Bijou Phillips
USA
Best movies:
Almost Famous (2000)
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Sugar Town (1999)
Clark Gregg
USA
Best movies:
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Magnolia (1999)
The Avengers (2012)
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Goodfellas (1990)
Detachment (2011)
25th Hour (2002)
Judith Roberts
USA
Best movies:
Stardust Memories (1980)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Eraserhead (1977)
Matt Gerald
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Jonah Bobo
USA
Best movies:
Disconnect (2012)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Around the Bend (2004)
Chuck Palahniuk
USA
Best movies:
Choke (2008)
Joel Grey
USA
Best movies:
Cabaret (1972)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
A Christmas Carol (1999) (TV movie)
Michelle Hurst
USA
Best movies:
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Smoke (1995)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Mike S. Ryan
Best movies:
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Tiny Furniture (2010)
Choke (2008)
Suzanne Shepherd
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Goodfellas (1990)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Sebastian Sozzi
USA
Best movies:
Prime (2005)
Half Nelson (2006)
Supporting Characters (2012)
Allison Karman
Best movies:
Redbelt (2008)
Choke (2008)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)