Brilliantly executed by director Clark Gregg, Choke features its central character Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a sex-addict and a medical school drop-out con-man who works in a colonial theme park.

He devises a scam where he pretends to get choked on food pieces while dining in upscale restaurants and then allows himself to be rescued by sympathetic wealthy patrons.

While Victor makes those fellow patrons feel that his life is their responsibility, he uses the venture to pay for the hospital bills of his mother Ida (Anjelica Huston), who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.When he finds out that his mother has withheld the truth about the identity of his father, Victor teams up with his best friend Denny (Brad William Henke) and the beautiful physician Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald) to find out the mystery of his parentage before it is lost forever.