Fight Club

Fight Club
Fight Club
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Fincher
Screenplay by	Jim Uhls
Based on	Fight Club; by Chuck Palahniuk
Produced by	Art Linson; Ceán Chaffin; Ross Grayson Bell;
Starring	Brad Pitt; Edward Norton; Helena Bonham Carter; Meat Loaf; Jared Leto;
Cinematography	Jeff Cronenweth
Edited by	James Haygood
Music by	The Dust Brothers
Production; companies	Fox 2000 Pictures; Regency Enterprises; Linson Films;
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	September 10, 1999 (Venice); October 15, 1999 (United States);
Running time	139 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$63–65 million
Box office	$101.2 million

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 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 an impoverished but beguilingly attractive woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).

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. It was filmed in and around Los Angeles from July to December 1998. 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.^[5]^[6]

Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999, and was released in the United States on October 15, 1999 by 20th Century Fox. The film failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and received polarized reactions from critics. It was ranked as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s. However, Fight Club later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing it as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on its tenth anniversary, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time."^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Fight Club". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^ "Fight Club (1999)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
^ Fight Club at the American Film Institute Catalog
^ "Fight Club". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^ Cite error: The named reference CNN1999 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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^ Lim, Dennis (November 6, 2009). "Forget Rule No. 1: Still Talking About 'Fight Club'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2019.

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[mojo-1] "Fight Club". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved April 1, 2022.

[BFI-2] "Fight Club (1999)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2015.

[AFI-3] Fight Club at the American Film Institute Catalog

[numbers-5] "Fight Club". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved April 1, 2022.

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[8] Lim, Dennis (November 6, 2009). "Forget Rule No. 1: Still Talking About 'Fight Club'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2019.

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