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Choking Man

Play trailer Poster for Choking Man 2007,  1h 24m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 55% 29 Reviews Tomatometer 37% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
55% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 37% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
Ecuadorian immigrant Jorge (Octavio Gómez Berrios) makes a meager living scrubbing dishes in a Queens, N.Y. diner. Constantly harassed by the restaurant's overbearing manager, Jerry (Aaron Paul), Jorge yearns for romance with the new waitress, Amy (Eugenia Yuan). But he's hampered by his severe shyness and the fact that Jerry's also interested in her. While working his life away and dying on the inside, Jorge escapes to a series of vividly imagined fantasy worlds.
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Critics Consensus

Quirky animated interludes fail to lift this dull US immigrant indie out of its introverted torpid state.

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Anton Bitel Little White Lies Nov 16, 2008
For all its concern with social and mental disintegration, Choking Man is a strangely tender film. Go to Full Review
James Christopher The Times (UK) Nov 14, 2008
3/5
The creepy and original power of the film is the schizophrenic other who taunts him when he finally crawls home to his maggoty bedsit. Weird. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian Nov 14, 2008
1/5
Some US indie films are so torpid, so pointless and so incredibly whingey that you want to reach into the screen and slap the face of everyone involved. This film, by writer-director Steve Barron, is one such. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jul 9, 2009
B
Low-key indie. Go to Full Review
Trevor Johnston Film4 Nov 14, 2008
3/5
There's enough charm and enterprise here to win over viewers who have the patience to stick by the tongue-tied Jorge. An intriguing change of direction for pop-video pioneer Barron, though next time he might like to cut loose that bit more. Go to Full Review
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Steve Barron

Director

Mandy Patinkin

Rick

Octavio Gómez Berríos

Jorge

Eugenia Yuan

Amy

Aaron Paul

Jerry

Kate Buddeke

Terri

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Choking Man

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Movie Info

Synopsis Ecuadorian immigrant Jorge (Octavio Gómez Berrios) makes a meager living scrubbing dishes in a Queens, N.Y. diner. Constantly harassed by the restaurant's overbearing manager, Jerry (Aaron Paul), Jorge yearns for romance with the new waitress, Amy (Eugenia Yuan). But he's hampered by his severe shyness and the fact that Jerry's also interested in her. While working his life away and dying on the inside, Jorge escapes to a series of vividly imagined fantasy worlds.
Director
Steve Barron
Producer
Steve Barron, Zachary Mortensen, Joshua Zeman
Screenwriter
Steve Barron
Distributor
International Film Circuit [us]
Production Co
Ghost Robot
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 9, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 20, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.2K
Runtime
1h 24m
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