Choke

92 minutes • 2008 • 6.4

Victor (Sam Rockwell) has dropped out of medical school in favor of his job as a living role-playing character in a theme park about the New Age. When he is not attending meetings for anonymous sex addicts, where he is still constantly having sex, Victor scams rich people for money by simulating self-inflicted food suffocation in restaurants. When Victor's disillusioned and hospitalized mother Ida (Anjelica Huston), in a rare clear moment, reveals that she has withheld shocking information about his father, he engages his friend Denny (Brad W. Henke) and his mother's female doctor Dr. Marshall (Kelly Macdonald). ) to find the truth before it is gone forever.