Fight Club

Based on the debut novel by Chuck Palanhiuk about a confused young man in the not too distant future. With no family or close friends, he frequents cancer and disease support groups as a way to bond with others, pretending to be terminally ill or feigning various other infirmities to fit in. Sick of his dead end, white bread, white collar corporate career and disgusted with the empty consumer culture that his generation has been doomed to inherit, he and a devious friend named Tyler Durden create a new club where young men come to relieve their frustrations by beating each other to a pulp. Two rules govern the club: no more than two men per fight and no one is to mention fight club to any outsiders. Reverse-psychology proves it's power, as the latter rule instantaneously spreads the news of fight club throughout the underworld sub-culture. Soon new fight clubs are popping up everywhere and spread across the nation. Tyler Durden quickly becomes a cult hero of epic proportions, a new messiah for a dead generation. While all this is happening, the nameless, narrating main character manages to get involved in a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla who seems to have an endless supply of ex-boyfriends just as screwed up as he is. Soon our hero's reality will implode with consequences he could never anticipate.

• Directed By

  David Fincher

• Written By

  Jim Uhls, Chuck Palahniuk

• Produced By

  Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Grayson

• Cast

  Todd Peirce, Zach Grenier, Pat McNamara, Sydney Colston, Dierdre Downing Jackson, Richmond Arquette, Anderson Bourell, Tyrone R. Livingston, David Andrews, George Maguire, Matt Winston, W. Lauren Sanchez, Michael Girardin, Rachel Singer, Joon B. Kim, Thom Gossom Jr., Edward Kowalczyk, Lou Beatty Jr., Christie Cronenweth, Markus Redmond, Charlie Dell, Valerie Bickford, Carl Ciarfalio, David Jean-Thomas, Joel Bissonnette, Andi Carnick, Peter Iacangelo, Paul Carafotes, Leonard Termo, Robert J. Stephenson, Scotch Ellis Loring, Ezra Buzzington, Van Quattro, Christopher John Fields, Michael Shamus Wiles, David Lee Smith, Owen Masterson, Stuart Blumberg, Evan Mirand, Eugenie Bondurant, Mark Fite, Bennie E. Moore, Christina Cabot, Rob Lanza, Robby Robinson, Tim De Zarn, Holt McCallany, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto