Fight Club

Name: Fight Club
Released: 1999-10-15
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto

Fight Club

R
2h 19m
1999

79%

age 17+

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In this provocative drama co-starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton and directed by David Fincher, a disaffected man and his charismatic friend organize brutal, bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Director:

David Fincher

Producer:

Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell

Writer:

Jim Uhls, Chuck Palahniuk

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

79%

Critics Consensus: Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.

Reviews

The Playlist

Luke Hicks

Shocking violence, utter chaos, spirited editing, and mindfuck finales can be found elsewhere. Pitt haranguing a squirrelly Norton everyman on consumerist ideals, however, is forever.

Cult films are seldom great films, they just connect with a corner of the audience more intensely than was intended, elevating their status. That's "Fight Club." And appealing to the wrong sort of cult just makes that clearer.

It's bold, it's gritty, it's rebellious, it's unapologetic, it takes risks, and it's narrator reflects the frustrations of many people.

A savagely funny film that shocks, provokes and sucker punches the viewer. You either love it or hate it.

Unsubtle subliminal messages pair with skewed perceptions to demonstrate overstressed stylization and a hopelessly circuitous plot.

September 11, 2020

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Common Sense Media

age 17+

Common Sense Says

Lurid, twisted, and violent movie has mature themes.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Fight Club is the 1999 movie based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel in which Edward Norton plays an insomniac office worker who meets his masculine ideal opposite with whom he begins to get in touch with his primal self as well as a desire to sabotage consumer culture. Impressionable kids and teens are likely to miss the dark satire while witnessing numerous examples of graphic beatings, vandalism, shootings, and bombings. The overall cloud of nihilism permeating this movie, the lead character's attempts to place subliminal one-frame shots of pornography in family movies in a theater where he works as a projectionist, scenes in which characters who work in restaurants urinate in food, a scene in which the female lead, after engaging in loud and passionate sex, says, "I haven't been f--ked like that since grade school," as well as the aforementioned graphic violence, make this best for audiences mature enough to see the film's deeper messages on the ways in which consumer culture warps our individuality and self esteem. There's also frequent profanity, nudity, smoking, and drinking.