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Choke (2008)

CastSam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Jonah Bobo
Year released2008
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Historical interpreter Victor Mancini: narrating: "... housewife... spread eagle with the family dog... the molester with the molested... he’s a sex addict..." (0:00)

Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting: "... My name is Lonnie, and I’m a sex addict." 
Victor: ”... sex is a compulsion, like gambling or drugs or shoplifting...” 
”... Nico gets released from the halfway house twice a week for therapy... perverse... to get sober... I come to meetings. I work the steps... try to abstain... to quit. Sex addicts become... Orgasms release endorphins. Endorphins kill pain... I’m Nico’s sponsor... no crazy mother...” (0:01)

One reenactor shotguns another. (0:04)

Victor fakes choking on food. (0:08)

Victor: "... Other patients express themselves..." 
Patient Eva mistakes Victor for Collin. 
Victor: ”... It’s for loony broads...” (0:09)

His mother Ida J. Mancini mistakes Victor for Fred. 
Ida, referring to Victor: ”... He dropped out of medical school...” 
”... to give that boy some vision... had me committed...” 
Victor: ”... he dropped out of medical school...” (0:11)

Victor tells Dr. Paige Marshall, referring to Ida, "... She never knows who I am... she won’t eat..." (0:15)

A nun tells Victor, "... Not to worry..." (0:17)

Ida tells Victor, "... I don’t even know who I’m talking to..." 
Victor: ”... a traveling salesman from Norway with Tourette’s.” (0:18)

Ida tells young Victor, "... Pretty women are narcissistic..." 
”... This work requires vision...” (0:20)

Paige tells Victor, "... your mother suffers from a form of dementia that’s been exacerbated by years of substance abuse." 
Victor: ”Dr. Fielding said it was Alzheimer’s.”
”Did you try Aricept or Cognex?” 
Paige: ”... know about those drugs...?” 
Victor: ”What about a glutamate blocker like memantine?” 
Paige: ”... can be very traumatic.” (0:21)

Victor tells Eva, "... I boned you silly..." (0:23)

Victor tells Denny, “... After all the psychotic shit..." 
Denny: ”... almost a week sober.” 
Victor: ”... this whole sobriety thing...” 
Denny: ”... start your fourth step yet?” 
”... fearless inventory... sex addict history...” (0:24)

Ida appears to believe Denny is Victor. (0:26)

Paige tells Victor, "I put myself through med school..." 
Victor: ”... I might be a sex addict.” 
”... almost three days of sobriety...” 
Paige: ”Don’t worry...” (0:29)

Victor asks Denny, "Are you nuts?..." (0:31)

Sexaholics Anonymous Meeting
Addict: ”... stalking the trannie hooker who knocked out six teeth... my first meeting..."
Poster: Steps 11 and 12
Group: ”...grant me the serenity to accept the things...” (0:34)

Denny tells Victor, "... start your fourth step." (0:37)

Denny tells Victor, "... they get a little nervous..."
”... for every day of sobriety.” (0:40)

One resident tells another, referring to Victor, "He beat my sister..." 
Paige tells Victor, ”I think that’s sweet...” 
Referring to Ida: ”... she was delusional...” 
”... fertility treatments...” 
”... It’s kinda sweet...” (0:41)

A resident tells Victor, referring to her son Paul, "... thought of himself as a coward..." (0:43)

Denny tells Victor, referring to Denny’s uncle Don, "... he got hammered last month... Mothers Against Drunk Driving..." (0:46)

Paige tells Victor, "... the way the patients look at you..." 
Victor: ”... my crazy mother’s journal...” 
”... it’s ‘cause I’m a pervert...” 
Resident, referring to Victor: ”... he’s so humble.” 
Victor: ”I’m not humble...” (0:50)

Victor asks a woman, "... rape you in drag?" (0:52)

The woman tells Victor, "... you... moron..." 
”... hit me.” 
”... Hit me.” 
Victor smacks her head. 
Woman: ”... You’re gonna give me a concussion...” 
Victor crawls out the window. (0:54)

Victor: "... I’m not a very good sponsor." (0:56)

Denny tells Victor, "... go to a meeting..." 
Victor: ”... you’re concerned about my sobriety?” 
Denny: ”... I’m not stalking her...” 
”... resist the impulse...” 
”... start your fourth step...” (0:58)

Reenactor Ursula answers Victor, referring to Lord High Charlie, "Because he’s sweet..." (1:07)

Meeting: "My name is Phil, and I’m a sex addict." 
Phil: ”Tonight’s meeting is a step...” 
”... fourth step?...” 
Victor: ”... I’m a sex addict.” 
”I’ve been trying to start my fourth step...” (1:09)

Victor answers a passenger, "... at the state mental hospital." (1:11)

Ida: "Oh, that’s very sweet, Victor..." 
Victor: ”Don’t worry...” 
Ida dies with Victor at her side. 
Bracelet on Paige: ”PATIENT” 
Victor asks Paige, ”You’re a patient?” (1:15)

Victor tells Paige, "... you’re crazy." 
Paige: ”Just a med school dropout...” 
”... in my last week of med school... loyal boy...” (1:20)

Detective Foushee tells Victor, "... talking with a patient..." 
Detective Palmer: ”... under the delusion she was a doctor.” 
Foushee: ”Checked in catatonic...” 
Victor: ”And you can’t find her in a mental hospital?...” 
Palmer: ”... He’s faking.” (1:22)

Victor, narrating: "... whether we’re saints or sex addicts, sane or insane... a certain wise fugitive... beautiful like my mother...” (1:25)

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