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Fight Club
1999
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. .. Read more
| Starring | Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto |
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| Director | David Fincher |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Fight Club
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.
| Starring | Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Edward Norton, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette |
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| Director | David Fincher |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 14 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 14 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Nov 2000 Blu-ray: 23 Nov 2009 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
Fight Club (1999)
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Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller is boldly brought to the screen here by Se7en director David Fincher. The result is a shocking, provocative and highly amusing macho fantasy, as insomniac loser Edward Norton teams up with seditionary soap salesman Brad Pitt to form a no-holds-barred fight club as an outlet for their directionless aggression. The growing cult's Project Mayhem takes subversive vandalism into the outside world with a series of ludicrous acts of sabotage. Fincher's satirical fable brilliantly plays with cinematic conventions and climaxes with a shock twist. This charged slice of nihilistic angst is a mesmerising ride through the 1990s male psyche, aided by elaborate production design, unconventional editing, startling images and superlative acting from the leads. You'll either love it or hate it.
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It is impossible to take seriously the film's sado-masochistic posturing, its insistence that inflicting and suffering pain is redemptive; but as a blackly comic updating of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a sick fantasy of a man in two minds, it has its mo
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59 out of 63 people found this review helpful
What a suprise! It's not what you think!
Fight Club is a brash slap in the face of consumerism and the working dead. It questions reality. It is strikingly thought provoking 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, dropping in things here and there to make things clear. Edward Norton is excellent as Jack, the narrator of the movie. He is a nerdy insomniac who catalog shops at Ikea and has a going nowhere job. Brad Pitt is dynamic as Tyler Durden, an anarchistic man who lives in a run-down abandoned house and makes and sells soap for a living. Helen Bonham Carter is also great as Marla Singer, the manic-depressive chain-smoking woman in both their lives. Her role is critical and she plays it well.
There has been some controversy about the violence in this film but it is not gratuitous violence, it is part of the story and serves it well. It is much less than what you would see in your average Hollywood blockbuster. This is actually an insightful film and in many ways similar to American Beauty, although this film is much more in your face about it's message. If you are squeamish, you may not want to see it. There are some very painful bloody scenes, but if you can stomach it, then check it out. There is also a huge twist in this film that almost rivals the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense. And I must admit, it is the twist in this film that made me really love it. The best audience for this film is men in their 20's or 30's, but anyone that can appreciate film as a modern art should like it. One of the best films of 1999. -
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
WATCHABLE BUT NOT GREAT
I spent the first half of the film pretty bored and by the 2nd half, I felt I should 'finish what I started' I'm glad I did because I wasn't expecting a twist, but that was the only thing that made the film worth watching for me. I wouldn't sit through it again.
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Obama fought for Norton documentary
- 23 Oct 2009
U.S. leader Barack Obama ignored pleas from his aides to scrap a documentary on his rise to the top after declaring his interest in the presidency - because he recognised the Edward Norton film would offer the public an interesting slant on the American political process. Fight Club star Norton, who was leading the team behind the project, was stunned when the Illinois Senator announced a run for the White House while the actor was making a film about him - and begged Obama not to scrap the... Read more
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Fight Club - BLU-RAY Version
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 ...
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Fight Club
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 ...
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