Choke

10:50pm Friday, March 25 on F4

Clark Gregg’s black comedy – based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel (he also wrote Fight Club ) – stars Sam Rockwell as a man taking stock of his frayed life. Victor Mancini’s (Rockwell) mother Ida (Anjelica Houston) suffers from dementia, but his job at an 18th-century theme park doesn’t bring in enough cash to cover her care costs. To supplement his income, he pretends to choke on food in expensive restaurants, hoping his ‘rescuers’ will give him money once they hear his woes.