Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/15/1999(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time:
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
In this darkly comic
drama,
Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "
Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels alienated from the world at large; he's become so desperate to relate to others that he's taken to visiting support groups for patients with terminal diseases so that he'll have people to talk to. One day on a business flight, he discovers
Tyler Durden (
Brad Pitt), a charming iconoclast who sells soap.
Tyler doesn't put much stock in the materialistic world, and he believes that one can learn a great deal through pain, misfortune, and chaos.
Tyler cheerfully challenges his new friend to a fight. Our
Narrator finds that bare-knuckle brawling makes him feel more alive than he has in years, and soon the two become friends and roommates, meeting informally to fight once a week. As more men join in, the "fight club" becomes an underground sensation, even though it's a closely guarded secret among the participants. (First rule: Don't talk about fight club. Second rule: Don't talk about fight club.) But as our
Narrator and
Tyler bond through violence, a strange situation becomes more complicated when
Tyler becomes involved with
Marla (
Helena Bonham Carter), whom our
Narrator became infatuated with when they were both crashing the support-group circuit. Based on the novel by
Chuck Palahniuk,
Fight Club was directed by
David Fincher, who previously directed
Pitt in the
thriller Seven. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
