Fight Club
Fight Club
Director: David Fincher
Lead Actors: Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden), Edward Norton (Narrator), Helena Bonham Carter (Marla Singer), Meat Loaf (Robert Paulson), Jared Leto (Angel Face)
Released: December 1999
Movie Synopsis: Brad Pitt sheds a bit of his poster-boy image in this darkly comic drama. Jack (Edward Norton) is a depressed young man who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the 'perfect' apartment. He can't sleep and feels alienated from the world at large; he's become so desperate to relate to others that he's taken to crashing support groups for patients with terminal diseases, claiming to be dying soon so that he'll have people to talk to. One day on a business flight, Jack meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charming iconoclast who sells soap. Tyler doesn't put much stock in the materialistic world that Jack longs to travel in, and he believes that one can learn a great deal through pain, misfortune and chaos. The two become friends and roommates, and one night Tyler cheerfully challenges Jack to a fight. Jack finds that bare-knuckle brawling makes him feel more alive than he has in years, and soon the two meet informally to fight once a week. As more men join in, the Fight Club becomes an underground sensation, even though it's a closely guarded secret among the participants. (Rule number one of the club: Never talk about the fight club. Rule number two: same as rule number one.) However, as Jack and Tyler bond through violence, a strange situation becomes more complicated when Tyler becomes involved with Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), whom Jack became infatuated with when they were both crashing the support-group circuit. Based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club was directed by David Fincher, who previously directed Pitt in the thriller Seven. -- Mark Deming
Personal View: My favorite movie of 1999. Hands down. I am going to see it again this weekend. It is amazing and one of my favorite movies of all time. Not to mention the fact it has my favorite actor in it (Edward Norton). If you haven't seen it yet, please, go see it.
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