Certificate
18
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Jeff Cronenweth
Costume Designer
Michael Kaplan
Production Designer
Alex McDowell
Reviews
Rolling Stone - ...The film's bold, bruising humor leaves marks on a wide range of hot-button issues....FIGHT CLUB pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss..., Sight and Sound - ...Dazzling entertainment..., Film Comment - ...Stunning, mordantly funny, formally dazzling..., USA Today - ...Packed with sizzling cinematics, including (no surprise here) another brilliant Edward Norton performance..., Total Film - "...FIGHT CLUB is bold, intelligent and thrillingly innovative..." -- 5 out of 5 stars, Variety - ...[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie....Rarely has a film been so keyed into its time...
Author
Chuck Palahniuk
Additional Information
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.
Movie/TV Title
Fight Club
Composer
Dust Brothers
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Screenwriter
Jim Uhls
Editor
Jim Haygood
