Choke stars Dennis Hopper as your forty/fifty something businessman who has problems at work and at home. At work he has to give Roy Tate the heave-ho as he finds Roy is a conman who wants to rope Hopper into one of his schemes. But on the domestic front his daughter has just gotten involved in a hit and run accident where she's killed someone.
Tate overhears the conversation between Hopper and his daughter and interjects himself in that affair by taking her car and ditching it. Which enrages Hopper even further and he chokes Tate.
Sad to say his act of throwing Tate's body out the bathroom window from his building is seen by Michael Madsen who is fresh from his own murder of his girlfriend with the body in his car trunk. A combination of charm, insinuation, and blackmail forces Hopper into alliance with him.
Imagine Strangers On A Train where Guy and Bruno each commit their own murders and ally themselves in the disposal and getaway and you've got Choke. An interesting idea and Hopper and Madsen work hard, but we know the outome already due to some bad execution of the script. Plus both could have used a bit better direction.
Tate overhears the conversation between Hopper and his daughter and interjects himself in that affair by taking her car and ditching it. Which enrages Hopper even further and he chokes Tate.
Sad to say his act of throwing Tate's body out the bathroom window from his building is seen by Michael Madsen who is fresh from his own murder of his girlfriend with the body in his car trunk. A combination of charm, insinuation, and blackmail forces Hopper into alliance with him.
Imagine Strangers On A Train where Guy and Bruno each commit their own murders and ally themselves in the disposal and getaway and you've got Choke. An interesting idea and Hopper and Madsen work hard, but we know the outome already due to some bad execution of the script. Plus both could have used a bit better direction.