www.x101.info Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Rated R for for strong sexual content, nudity and language Runtime: 89 minutes “Choke” is a dark comedy that follows Victor Mancini (Sam 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 (Anjelica Huston) care at a private mental hospital. He is forced to address his intimacy issues when he falls in love with his mother’s doctor and discovers that he is unable to perform with the one woman he actually likes. An adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk (“Fight Club”) novel. A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death. Victor Mancini is a medical-school dropout who has devised an ingenious scam to pay elder care for his Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. –Written by Anonymous Sex addict and colonial theme …