Clark Gregg's directorial debut Choke has been adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name and stars Anjelica Huston, Sam Rockwell, Joel Grey and Brad William Henke.
Choke is a black comedy that 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.
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.