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Fight Club
on DVD (1999)
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| Starring: |
Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Edward Norton, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette |
| Director: |
David Fincher |
| Studio: |
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
134 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 must-see movies |
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| Genres: |
Action/Adventure |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
English |
| Released: |
06/11/2000
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Brief synopsis of 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.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
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.
Halliwell's Film Guide
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
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..."
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