Fight Club

About Fight Club

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Fight Club is a 1999 thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film is filed under breaking the fourth wall, nihilism, dual identity, and alter ego.

Edward Norton takes the lead as Narrator, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer, and Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson. It runs 139 minutes and was released in October 1999.

The screenplay is by Jim Uhls. Production companies include 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, and Linson Entertainment. The film began as a novel.

It is most often saved alongside Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and The Hunger Games. TMDB voters put it at 8.4 out of 10 across 33,208 votes and it carries a R rating.