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Dakota Fanning, age , actress—“The Watchers,” “The Equalizer 3,” “Push,” “War of the Worlds,” “Man on Fire,” “Hide and Seek,” “Super 8,” “Phoebe in Wonderland,” “We Bought a Zoo” • Faith: Unclear, raised Southern Baptist • Majored in women’s studies at NYU, with a focus on the portrayal of women in film and culture
Natalie Portman, age —actress, producer, director, writer—“Black Swan,” “V for Vendetta,” “Closer,” “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “No Strings Attached,” “Star Wars” prequel trilogy • Faith: Judaism with atheist leanings and no belief in an afterlife. Portman was born in Israel and speaks Hebrew. Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist), LGBT activism, long-time pal of Hillary Clinton
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Choke
for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Comedy Romance |
| Length: | 1 hr. 29 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2008 |
| USA Release: |
September 26, 2008 (400 theaters) DVD: February 17, 2009 |
| Featuring | Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander, Teodorina Bello, Kate Blumberg, Jonah Bobo, Willi Burke, Heather Burns, David Fonteno, Matt Gerald, Clark Gregg, Joel Grey, Viola Harris, Paz de la Huerta, Michelle Hurst, Gillian Jacobs, Jen Jones, Jordan Lage, Matt Malloy, Mary B. McCann, Alice Barrett Mitchell, Marty Murphy, Neil Pepe, Bijou Phillips, Peggy Pope, Denise Raimi, Donald Rizzo, Judith Anna Roberts, Yolonda Ross, Mike S. Ryan, Solo Scott, Suzanne Shepherd, David Shumbris, Sebastian Sozzi, Kate Udall, Melinda Wade, Isiah Whitlock Jr. |
| Director |
Clark Gregg |
| Producer | ATO Pictures, Aramid Entertainment Fund, Choke Film, Contrafilm, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell, Beau Flynn, Mia Lee, Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng, Gary Ventimiglia, Tripp Vinson, Lisa Zambri |
| Distributor |
 Fox Searchlight Pictures, a sister company of 20th Century Fox, a division of The Walt Disney Company |
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park.
At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who ‘save’ him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. The film is adapted from the best-selling, critically acclaimed novel by Chuck Palahniuk.”
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My Ratings: Moral rating: Average / Moviemaking quality: 2