Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a “fight club” with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).
- Starring : Brad Pitt / Edward Norton
- Genre : Drama
- Country : United States / Germany
- Language : English
- Director : David Fincher
- Production : Fox 2000 Pictures / Regency Enterprises / Linson Films / Atman Entertainment / Knickerbocker Films / Medusa Film / Taurus Film
- Distributor : Twentieth Century Fox / 20th Century Fox Argentina / 20th Century Fox / Bandur Film / Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors / Filmes Castello Lopes / Fox Film / Gemini / Inoekino / Medusa Distribuzione / Splendor Films / UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD) / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Egmont Entertainment / FS Film / Gativideo / IPA Asia Pacific / Kinowelt Home Entertainment / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / Nelonen / Net5 / Svensk Filmindustri (SF) / TV6 / Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Fight Club release date
- September 21, 1999 : USA (CMJ Film Festival)
- October 6, 1999 : USA (Westwood, California) (premiere)
- October 15, 1999 : Canada
- October 15, 1999 : India (internet)
- October 15, 1999 : USA
- November 4, 1999 : Singapore
- November 5, 1999 : Spain
- November 10, 1999 : Switzerland (French speaking region)
- November 10, 1999 : France
- November 11, 1999 : Australia
- November 11, 1999 : Germany
- November 12, 1999 : UK
- November 12, 1999 : Ireland
- November 16, 1999 : Israel
- November 17, 1999 : Philippines (Davao)
- December 11, 1999 : Japan
- December 25, 1999 : Sweden
- February 10, 2011 : Canada (Digital Film Festival)
- July 4, 2015 : Germany (Munich International Film Festival)
- August 5, 2015 : Switzerland (Locarno Film Festival)
- September 23, 2016 : Japan (Kanazawa Film Fest)
- July 26, 2017 : France (re-release)
- May 15, 2019 : France (re-release) (20th anniversary edition)
Fight Club cast
- Edward Norton as The Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Meat Loaf as Robert ‘Bob’ Paulsen (as Meat Loaf Aday)
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler
- Richmond Arquette as Intern
- David Andrews as Thomas
- George Maguire as Group Leader
- Eugenie Bondurant as Weeping Woman
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Christina Cabot as Group Leader
- Sydney ‘Big Dawg’ Colston as Speaker
- Rachel Singer as Chloe
- Christie Cronenweth as Airline Attendant
- Tim DeZarn as Inspector Bird (as Tim de Zarn)
- Ezra Buzzington as Inspector Dent
Palahniuk’s novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. He and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising.
Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher’s intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to meet the studio’s expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. The Guardian saw it as an omen for change in American political life, and described its visual style as ground-breaking. The film later found commercial success with its DVD release, establishing Fight Club as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. On the tenth anniversary of the film’s release, The New York Times dubbed it the “defining cult movie of our time.”
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