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CHOKING MAN (clip 1)
Amy tries to console near mute and extremely shy dishwasher Jorge hiding behind the diner after a verbal assault from another staff member.
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Choking Man |
| Melding acute insight into the immigrant experience with visionary magical realism, Steve Barron serves up a parable set in New York's multi-ethnic Jamaica neighborhood. Octavio Gómez Berrios plays a near-mute dishwasher from Equador toiling at a shabby diner, while quietly pining for a radiant fellow immigrant (Eugenia Yuan). His inner world is revealed in surreal animated interludes featuring rabbits and diagrammatic figures from a Heimlich maneuver first-aid poster. Mandy Patinkin costars. "Thoroughly charming" — Salon. | |
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