Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club is a 1999 drama movie directed by David Fincher, with a running time of 2h 19m. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter.
A white-collar insomniac drifts through recall meetings and support groups he has no business attending, numb inside a life assembled from catalog furniture. Then he meets Tyler Durden, a soap salesman with a gospel of destruction, and the two start a bare-knuckle club in a bar basement where men beat the numbness out of each other. David Fincher directs Chuck Palahniuk's novel with grime, static, and a narrator you cannot trust. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt circle Helena Bonham Carter's Marla Singer, a chain-smoking wreck who sees through all of it.
Quick answers
What is Fight Club about?
A white-collar insomniac drifts through recall meetings and support groups he has no business attending, numb inside a life assembled from catalog furniture. Then he meets Tyler Durden, a soap salesman with a gospel of destruction, and the two start a bare-knuckle club in a bar basement where men beat the numbness out of each other. David Fincher directs Chuck Palahniuk's novel with grime, static, and a narrator you cannot trust. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt circle Helena Bonham Carter's Marla Singer, a chain-smoking wreck who sees through all of it.
When was Fight Club released?
Fight Club was released on 15 October 1999.
How long is Fight Club?
Fight Club runs 2h 19m.
Who made Fight Club?
Fight Club was directed by David Fincher.
Where can I watch Fight Club?
Fight Club is available on fuboTV, Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and Google Play.
Where to watch Fight Club
Stream: fuboTV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Buy: Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Edward Norton as Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson
- Jared Leto as Angel Face
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler (Regional Manager)
- Holt McCallany as The Mechanic
- Eion Bailey as Ricky
- Richmond Arquette as Intern at Hospital
- David Andrews as Thomas at Remaining Men Together
- George Maguire as Group Leader at Remaining Men Together
- Eugenie Bondurant as Weeping Woman - Onward and Upward
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A few thoughts on Fight Club
Play BioShock next; its descent into a wrecked underwater utopia hides a reveal about identity and control that rhymes with Tyler Durden's whole philosophy. For the sound, The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy channels the same snarling, big-beat aggression the film's Dust Brothers score runs on.
Underground movements that turn self-destruction into philosophy
Fight Club treats the group's bare-knuckle self-harm as a kind of doctrine, a way of feeling something between recall meetings and catalog furniture. Trainspotting frames heroin the same way, as a code its users half-believe in, Natural Born Killers turns spectacle violence into its own gleeful ideology, Crash fetishizes wreckage as a form of transcendence, and The Fat of the Land supplies the same snarling, industrial-strength rebellion on record.
Violent noir where masculinity turns feral
Fight Club lets its narrator's buried rage take over completely once Tyler starts throwing punches. A History of Violence tracks the same feral instinct resurfacing under a mild-mannered surface, Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For turn that violence into hard-boiled noir spectacle, and Starred Up locks it inside a prison where masculinity has nowhere else to go.