Alan Rapp

This Week in Independent Film

  • Title: Choke
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Based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Rockwell stars as a sex-addict con man known to fake choking in upscale restaraunts who attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s identity with the help of his mother’s physician (Kelly Macdonald) and his best friend (Brad William Henke).  Anjelica Huston, Kathryn Alexander, Clark Gregg, and Bijou Phillips also star.  We’ve seen it, and we’ll have the review for you when the film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.

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This Week in Independent Film

  • Title: Forever Strong
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A rebellious teen rugby star (Sean Faris) finds himself sentenced to a boys’ home where he begins playing for their team and making a run at the national championship.  Gary Cole, Neal McDonough, Sean Astin, Penn Badgley, and Arielle Kebbel also star Check out the official site.  The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.

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Ghost Town

  • Title: Ghost Town
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“You died.”
“I died?”
“A little bit.”

Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) doesn’t like people.  The dentist has a disdain for pretty much the entire human race, but his life is changed by an unforeseen side-effect of a routine surgery.

The dentist goes in for a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes on the table, and walks out with an ability to see and hear dead people.  And New York it seems has more than its share of ghosts.

Pincus is hounded by the spirits needing closure led by recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who wants Pincus to ruin his widow’s relationship with a lawyer.  Pincus immediately falls for Gwen (Tea Leoni) and agrees, but most overcome his own personality and self-history to win her over.

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