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Fight Club

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Fight Club (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 124

Fresh: 100

Rotten:24

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Consensus: Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.

Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or... FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or "tourist," the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity. [More]

Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf

Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette

Director: David Fincher

Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Jim Uhls
Producer: Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Bell
Composer: Dust Brothers

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Aug 27, 2002

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40:1
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital THX EX 6.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Surround - English
  • Dolby Surround - French
  • THX Mastered Audio

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. David Fincher - Director
  • 2. David Fincher - Director, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton - Stars
  • 3. Chuck Palahniuk - Author, Jim Uhls - Screenwriter
  • 4. Special Effects Supervisors

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May also be yet another example of a book that was just fine as a book -- that didn't need to be made into a film.

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An exciting, dangerous, and intense story.

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One of the greatest films ever made

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...more clever and kinetic than it is profound, more a visceral movie than a think piece.

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In the future, all manner of society's ills in the future will be blamed on this movie. [But] this is a film that exposes evil, not one that glorifies it.

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Jeffrey Overstreet
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It's a movie with all the warmth of a refrigerated meat locker at midnight. And who wants to hang around there?

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06/23/04
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Lobs punishing combinations at the flabby midsection of life in the 1990s. But as the film wears on, it’s apparent that Fincher can’t deliver the knockout blow.

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Latest News for Fight Club

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