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David Fincher

David Fincher
Born 28 Aug 1962, in Denver, Colorado

Wise words: "As a director, film is about how you dole out the information so that the audience stays with you when they're supposed to stay with you, behind you when they're supposed to stay behind you, and ahead of you when they're supposed to stay ahead of you."


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David Fincher - news / articles


  • Cox asks Fincher for directing advice - 25 July 2009
    -Former Friends star Courteney Cox is determined to carve out a career as a director - and has turned to moviemaker David Fincher to help make her dream come true.- -The actress is set to make her directorial debut with short film The Monday Before Thanksgiving, which


  • WIN! Brad Pitt and David Fincher DVDS - 26 May 2009
    -To celebrate the release of -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- on 8th June, we’ve got three sets of Brad Pitt and David Fincher Blu-ray DVDs for you to win.- -Three lucky winners will get copies of Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward


  • David Fincher: Real Zodiac was scary - 18 May 2007
    The period when self-named serial killer Zodiac terrorised San Francisco was "very scary", director David Fincher has said.-Fincher, who previously made Seven, Fight Club and Alien 3, grew up in the area during the 1960s and 70s, and told the Guardian it was

David Fincher - what members say


  • Seven
  • Seven review by from Bedford, England
    Rated - 5 stars Seven Stars 3 September 2003
    .... Morgan Freeman is, as always, absolutely breathtakingly good and top marks to David Fincher for an epic journey into obsession, the grotesque and twisted morality. Seven i...  
  • Alien 3
  • Alien 3 review by from Nottingham
    Rated - 5 stars One of the worst films I've seen. 11 July 2004
    ...It upsets me to say that I don't like a David Fincher film; Fight Club, Seven, and Panic Room are all very good. But because he was a new director at the time, he wasn't gi...  
  • Fight Club
  • Fight Club review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 5 stars What a suprise! It's not what you think! 24 October 2003
    ...oking and visually stimulating. The direction is incredibly brilliant. Director David Fincher (Aliens, Se7en and The Game) is at his finest here warping both space and time,...  

David Fincher - filmography


  • Panic Room (3 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Jared Leto,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 16,012 members
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  • Fight Club - BLU-RAY Version (1999)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  Meat Loaf
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 138 members
    Due for release on 23rd November 2009
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  • Fight Club on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  Meat Loaf
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 73,295 members
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  • The Game on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Sean Penn,  Deborah Unger
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 9,780 members
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  • Game, The - HD DVD Version (1997)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Sean Penn,  Deborah Unger
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 440 members
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  • Seven on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Morgan Freeman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and lust--these are the seven deadly sins that are being punished with unimaginable cruelty and calculation by an enigmatic killer in David Fincher's bleak thriller SEVEN. Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman)..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 75,305 members
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  • Alien 3 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Charles S. Dutton,  Charles Dance
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It is not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 20,838 members
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David Fincher facts

5 most recent films

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 3.5 stars
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars
Panic Room - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Fight Club - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Alien Quadrilogy - 4.0 stars
Seven - 4.0 stars
Fight Club - 4.0 stars
The Game - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Panic Room - 3.0 stars
Alien 3 - 3.0 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Game, The - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Brad Pitt - 9 times - show films
Tilda Swinton - 4 times - show films
Elle Fanning - 4 times - show films
Julia Ormond - 4 times - show films
Jason Flemyng - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Cameron - 2 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 2 times - show films
Jea - 1 times - show films