Fight Club
Drama, Thriller
20th Century Fox  (1999) 139 mins R

8.7 (293,310 votes) Top 250: #22
"Mind Blowing!" -Philadelphia Weekly

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

The New York Times raved that Fight Club "just might require another viewing." Here's your chance. Brace yourself....

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Cast and Crew
Helena Bonham Carter  ......  Marla Singer
Brad Pitt  ......  Tyler Durden
Edward Norton  ......  The Narrator
Jared Leto  ...... 
Meat Loaf  ......  Robert 'Bob' Paulson
Zach Grenier  ......  Richard Chesler
Director  .....  David Fincher
Producer  .....  Cean Chaffin; Art Linson; Ross Grayson Bell; Ceán Chaffin
Writer  .....  Jim Uhls; Chuck Palahniuk
Notes
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Tyler *69s the Narrator at the payphone. While all the Paper Street house phones are rotary, you can dial "1169" from a rotary phone with the same effect; it's likely that Tyler would still refer to this as "*69." And while *69 might not work on a pay phone, this scene is not entirely as it seems, for reasons that become clear by the end of the movie. (more)

Trivia:
The "filing cabinet" apartment block that the Narrator lives in is called "Pierson Towers", and the motto is "a place to be somebody" which is the city motto for Wilmington, Delaware. (more)

Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
[Tyler points a gun into the Narrator's mouth]
Narrator: [voiceover] People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.
Tyler Durden: Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?
Narrator: ...i... ann... iinn... ff... nnyin...
Narrator: [voiceover] With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
[Tyler removes the gun from the Narrator's mouth]
Narrator: I can't think of anything.
Narrator: [voiceover] For a second I totally forgot about Tyler's whole controlled demolition thing and I wonder how clean that gun is.
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations (more)