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Choke

  • 2001
  • R
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
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Choke (2001)
Thriller

A businessman gets caught up in extortion, murder and blackmail.A businessman gets caught up in extortion, murder and blackmail.A businessman gets caught up in extortion, murder and blackmail.

  • Director
    • John Sjogren
  • Writer
    • John Sjogren
  • Stars
    • Chelsy Reynolds
    • Bradley Armstrong Donohue
    • Tamara Cholakian
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.1/10
    491
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Sjogren
    • Writer
      • John Sjogren
    • Stars
      • Chelsy Reynolds
      • Bradley Armstrong Donohue
      • Tamara Cholakian
    • 27User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Chelsy Reynolds
    • Gena
    Bradley Armstrong Donohue
    • Boyfriend
    Tamara Cholakian
    • Kate
    Robert Baugh
    • Pete Farmer
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Henry Clark
    Roy Tate
    • Ron Sloan
    Paula Stevens
    • Liz
    Robert Reiser
    • Jack
    Beny Hafkamp
    • Security Guard #2
    Baron Gerrick
    • Prosecutor #1
    Brian Dill
    • Male Defense Lawyer
    Racquel Krupsaw
    • Female Defense Lawyer
    Linda Brandes
    • Prison Guard #1
    Raine Montgomery
    • Prison Guard #2
    Alex Zindvyev
    • Big Courtroom Fighter
    Zach Coogan
    • Bailiff #1
    John Washburn
    • Bailiff #2
    Ron Klein
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      • John Sjogren
    • Writer
      • John Sjogren
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    scente

    Lots of unintentional hilarity

    This is the most gloriously contrived flick I have ever seen. Dennis Hopper's character and his actions are laugh out loud funny. Man this is a so bad it is good flick in the truest sense. Hopper's inner monologues and Madsen's bad guy mugging for the camera make this silly, silly movie so much fun. Sit back and laugh at this laughable movie. Fun stuff!
    Darkmire

    7/10

    Films is forgettable, but really takes you on a ride. Madson and Hopper are really incredible, especially Madson. Most of the film there is suspense, and you see how people can change under certain conditions. A physco playing with a successful lawyer like a puppet, and it ends all well,

    I would give it a 7/10, it is a one-flick movie though.
    4tringwood

    Choke Choked

    Hopper has never been worse as if he felt as this movie is worthy of only a grade B performance and he delivers a rather good one. Outside of Madsen and Hopper the acting is horrid; you've seen better at your local high school. The sound and at times the editing and camera shots are low end of B-movies. The scene with the peeping tom is of movies greatest gratuitous nudity scenes I've ever seen (it doesn't even come close to fitting in the movie). The script was probably a great 10-page outline, but when it comes out to a full-length movie there are more holes in it then the dead bodies Madsen left behind. I do have to say Hopper dressed in a nice suit driving the Hummer had me laughing out loud, but I don't think that was the intent. Yes there is a little style, and Hopper can always draw my interest. However the interesting plot concept never pays off and you are left wondering why you wasted your time watching this.
    5sol-kay

    It's not what you think it is..It's what you think it's not.

    **SPOILERS*** Finding her boyfriend, Bradley Armstrong, in the arms of another girl Kate, Tamara Cholakian,Gena, Chelsy Reynolds, gets so drunk to the point where go gets in her car and visually impaired, by the bottle of booze, and runs down and kills law student Pete Farmer, Robert Baugh. Even worse leaves the scene of the accident.

    Getting in touch with her dad Henry Clark (Dennis Hooper), a big time real-estate business man, he tells Gena to hold still until he can come up with something to get her off the hook. Henry had been having a big fight with his partner Ron Sloan, Roy Tate, over his unsavory business practices. Henry tells Ron to take a hike out to the Death Valley Desert for the summer and forget to come back.

    Ron picking up the outside extension phone, as Gena called her father, heard the trouble that she's in and started to use that to get back in with Henry by blackmailing him over his daughter's action. Going to the Clark home and finding Gena alone Ron gives her this cock & bull story about him working for her dad in helping her out with the accident that she had that night. Ron then takes the incriminating evidence, the damaged car with blood stains of the dead Pete Farmer, away from the police to find.

    When Henry find this out from Gena what Ron did he blows his top. And gets in touch with Ron at the company cafeteria to talk things over. Going into the bathroom to get away from anyone listening in, there was a couple of cops sitting at one the tables having a snack,Henry grabs Ron by the throat and squeezes it until he passes out.

    Waiting outside for Ron to recover and leave the bathroom Henry notices that he's not leaving and when he goes in he finds him on the floor dead. Panic-stricken Henry throws Ron's body out of the bathroom window, in broad daylight, and waits outside for the coast to be clear to dispose the corpse that was hidden under some brush. This sets off a bizarre encounter with Will, Michael Madsen, who seems to know everything that happened between Henry and Ron. Even the fact that Ron was laying dead in the bushes.

    Will has a problem of his own he has a dead hooker in the trunk of his car that he's trying to get rid of. Talking Henry into helping him by driving his, Will's, very distinctive looking car through the local hooker's strip in town while he gets rid of the two bodies, Ron and the dead hooker Christianne De Marco, some miles away. Will wants Henry to seen by the locals thus giving him an alibi to Christanne's murder.

    By now you and those in the movie "Choke" forgot about Gena's hit and run accident but it later comes to the surface with explosive results. It comes out end of the movie with an ending that came right out of left field with the force of ship load full of Cruise Missiles.

    Weird is the word for "Choke" that keeps you guessing to what's happening in the movie and just what that deranged cuckoo bird Will is up to until the last frame. Michael Madsen's Will is so strange and obnoxious in this movie that at one point he actually invites a cop, Gino Dentie, to tow away his car. The car that had two murder victims in it's trunk? this after the cop warned him over and over to move out of a parking space reserved for the disabled.

    Michael Madsen, who seemed to be doing a John Deere commercial throughout the entire movie, was so nuts and off-the-wall that for a moment I thought that he may have well had a disable sticker on his car fender due to the mentally unstable condition that he was in.
    mr_pivac1985

    Very Odd.

    This was one very strange movie, I rented this film on video manly because it had Dennis Hopper And Michael Madsen in it, They made the film watchable but with out them two actors this movie forshore would have been more of a bomb then it already is. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the film, But only because of the actors, Lots of other people would dissagree with im sure.

    all and all it was still a very watchable film so I would give it a 7 out of 10.

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 2001 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Shock
    • Filming locations
      • Malibu, California, USA(main location)
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      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
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