Fight Club (1999)
95%RT Audience Score: 96%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 Oscar
11 wins & 38 nominations total
Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.
Fight Club is a movie that’s been around for over two decades, but it’s still as unforgettable as ever. Some critics have called it a mess, while others have praised its brilliance. Personally, I think it’s a bit of both. The violence is shocking, the editing is spirited, and the twist ending is a total mindfuck. But let’s not forget the real reason we all love this movie: Brad Pitt haranguing a squirrelly Norton everyman on consumerist ideals. It’s a classic scene that will never get old. So, if you haven’t seen Fight Club yet, what are you waiting for? Just don’t talk about it.
Production Company(ies)
Fox 2000 Pictures, New Regency Productions, Linson Films,
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
240 North Neptune Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for disturbing and graphic depiction of violent anti-social behavior, sexuality and language
Year of Release
1999
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital DTSS DDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 19m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 15, 1999 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 14, 2003
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Eion Bailey, directed by David Fincher, written by Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, drama, R rating, box office performance, $37.0M, reviewed by Bob Thomas, Patrick Z McGavin, David Ansen, Jami Bernard, Peter Bradshaw, Richard Schickel, David Reddish, James Croot, Sean Collier, Sarah Brinks, Luke Hicks, Roger Moore, cult film, underground club, insomnia, soap salesman, Marla, support group, anti-social behavior, violent behavior, graphic behavior, language, sexuality, 20th Century Fox, Dolby SR, Dolby EX, DTS, Dolby Stereo, SDDS, DTS-ES, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby Digital, Scope (2.35:1), Ross Grayson Bell, Ceán Chaffin, Art Linson
Worldwide gross: $101,209,702
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $181,674,237
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 749
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 19,811,803
US/Canada gross: $37,030,102
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $66,470,066
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 951
US/Canada opening weekend: $11,035,485
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $19,809,003
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 660
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $63,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $113,086,757
Production budget ranking: 334
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $60,897,218
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $7,690,262
ROI to date (est.): 4%
ROI ranking: 1,376
Ed Norton – Jack
Helena Bonham Carter – Marla Singer
Meat Loaf – Robert Paulsen
Jared Leto – Angel Face
Eion Bailey – Ricky
Director(s)
David Fincher
Writer(s)
Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls
Producer(s)
Ross Grayson Bell, Ceán Chaffin, Art Linson
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
11 wins & 38 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
All Critics (181) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (143) | Rotten (38)
Perhaps it is postmodern filmmaking, whatever that means. In any case, Fight Club remains the ugliest, most inhuman film since Natural Born Killers.
April 7, 2020 | Rating: C-
Bob Thomas
Associated Press
TOP CRITIC
The movie demands a certain attention and is not easily dismissed, but there is something deeply unsettling about a work that uncritically espouses brutality as a function of alienation and nonconformity.
October 15, 2019
Patrick Z. McGavin
Hollywood Reporter
TOP CRITIC
An outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload, Fight Club is the most incendiary movie to come out of Hollywood in a long time. It’s a mess, but one worth fighting about.
March 6, 2018
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
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.
October 15, 2015 | Rating: 2/4
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
TOP CRITIC
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.
April 22, 2013
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
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
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
It seems like the male characters in Fight Club would be a whole lot happiernot to mention healthierif they could express respect and affection through the magic of gay sex.
March 20, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
David Reddish
Queerty
The first rule of Fight Club, as we’re constantly reminded, might not be to talk about it, but once seen, it is most certainly not forgotten, even 22 years on.
October 4, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5
James Croot
Stuff.co.nz
Let’s not get away from the fact that Fight Club is awesome.
June 26, 2021 | Rating: 10/10
Sean Collier
Box Office Prophets
David Fincher is an interesting director whose films more often than not work for me, Fight Club is a notable exception.
April 1, 2021
Sarah Brinks
Battleship Pretension
Shocking violence, utter chaos, spirited editing, and mindfuck finales can be found elsewhere. Pitt haranguing a squirrelly Norton everyman on consumerist ideals, however, is forever.
February 17, 2021
Luke Hicks
The Playlist
Cult films are seldom great films, they just connect with a corner of the audience more intensely than was intended, elevating their status. That’s “Fight Club.” And appealing to the wrong sort of cult just makes that clearer.
January 31, 2021 | Rating: 2/4
Roger Moore
Movie Nation…
Plot
A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Brad Pitt’s character, Tyler Durden, was ranked #8 on Empire Magazine’s list of “The 100 Greatest Movie Characters” in 2015.
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