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Choking Man
Directed by
Steve Barron
Not Rated
2006
85m
Drama
,
Comedy
5.9
52%
37%
5.3
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The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
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Cast of Choking Man
Octavio Gómez Berríos
Jorge
Eugenia Yuan
Amy
Aaron Paul
Jerry
Mandy Patinkin
Rick
Kate Buddeke
Terri
Mando Alvarado
Chef
Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Germanic Man
Al Roffe
Chef
Irma St. Paule
Female Diner's Mother
Steve Barron
Director / Writer
Zachary Mortensen
Producer
Choking Man Ratings & Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Low-key indie.
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
rises above the mundane with the inclusion of some gorgeous animated interludes and just a touch of Latin American-style magical realism.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Overburdened with disorienting stylistic devices and contrived plot elements that reduce the psychological depth to which it aspires.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
In this case, what looks like an ambitious film-school project, complete with heavy-handed sincerity, experimental camera style, and an overplayed central metaphor, becomes gently lyrical and melancholy.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
For all its enticing dramatic hooks, Choking Man has a fairly unrewarding conclusion.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Barron's direction is low-key but efficient.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The movie suffocates under the weight of too many wrong choices.
Film Journal International
David Noh
[Barron] has made Jorge so deeply withdrawn that you are unable to really feel anything for him other than a blind pity, which is decidedly not the stuff of compelling dramaturgy.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Choking Man mainly falters in its inability to reconcile the darker psychological elements of Jorge's mind and all that they portend.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
Choking Man is harsh and intermittently affecting but oppressively contrived and mostly pointless.
Newsday
John Anderson
The film looks so good it could play without sound.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Andy Klein
... wants to take us into Jorge's mind, though a less interesting and pleasant place would be hard to imagine.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I can think of no earthly reason why this well-made and thoroughly charming New York indie drama from writer-director Steve Barron has been languishing in limbo for two years.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
If there is finally a point to the film it is that we're all human piñatas and that putting sprinkles in your fish soup may not be tasty, but it makes one's upchuck look pretty. I think.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Barron executes all the hard stuff remarkably well: vivid ensemble thesping, evocative locales and even unforced Catholic symbolism. But his high-concept protagonist is so introverted he projects a void at the film's center.
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