New Yorker article on Choke

Choke, one of many novels by Chuck Palahniuk, tells the story of a Colonial theme park employee, desperately seeking attention and acceptance. The story follows Victor Mancini, a sex addicted lunatic, who uses choking in restaurants as a way of becoming close to people, using their sympathy to his advantage. Victor visits his mother who is in a mental hospital for Alzheimer’s, trying to make her remember him, yet every time failing. He continually remembers his childhood, and looks back on his relationship with his deranged mother. Victor begins an affair with his mother’s doctor and finds that he has the capability to love. However, will he be able to give himself to love and be able to take care of his mother?

Choke Trailer

From the author of Fight Club and Lullaby, comes Choke. A dark comedy about family relationships, sex addiction and how to work at a colonial theme park.

“The way to remember the symptoms of melanoma is the letters ABCD. Asymmetrical shape, Border irregularity, Color variation and Diameter larger than about six millimeters”-Victor Mancini

A story about a medical school drop out with a peculiar addiction…

“The magic of sex is it’s an acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, there’s never a storage problem.”

And a mother on the edge of insanity…

“The diseases a mother can pass to her baby are TORCH: Toxoplasmosis, Other (meaning syphilis and HIV), Rubella, Cytomegalovirus, and Herpes. It helps if you can picture a mother passing the torch to her baby.”-Victor Mancini

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all of my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”-Victor Mancini

Coming to a theater near you…

“Just keep asking yourself: ’What would Jesus NOT do?’”-Victor Mancini

Cast for Choke

Victor Mancini-James Roday

Ida J. Mancini- Meryl Streep

Cherry Daiquiri- Elisha Cuthbert

Paige Marshall- Mandy Moore

Denny- Seth Rogen