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Fight Club
The unnamed narrator is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and advises him to visit a support group to witness more severe suffering. One day on a business flight, he discovers Tyler Durden, a charming iconoclast who sells soap. As more men join in, the 'fight club' becomes an underground sensation, even though it';s a closely guarded secret among the participants.
27 April 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19 December 1969, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
5 February 1971
16 December 1969, New York City, New York, USA
26 December 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA
21 August 1963, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1933, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
18 May 1967, Oxnard, California, USA
27 October 1955, Everett, Washington, USA
23 December 1975, Fremont, California, USA
March 09, 2014
Fight Club may be iconic and technically proficient, but it's more distant than perhaps any film to attain "modern classic" status.April 22, 2013
Wildly inventive, exceptionally cast and undeniably controversial, there's an endless list of subtexts and viewpoints which will fuel student pub debates for years.April 22, 2013
We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.April 27, 2015
Technically gorgeous... But it's such a wreck of tone and intellect.April 22, 2013
A controversial satire and a contemporary classic.April 22, 2013
It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.April 22, 2013
Fight Club jettisons its sense of humour 60 minutes in, and, so far from satirising the tiresome "crisis of masculinity" stuff sloshing around the airwaves either side of the Atlantic, the film simply endorses it.May 11, 2012
This is American self-absorption at its finest.April 22, 2013
Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.October 15, 2015
Oh, for the time when men were men and were encouraged to beat the tar out of one another. That's the world "Fight Club" pines for.April 22, 2013
Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.