Fight club

Resource Information

The work Fight club represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lewisville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Fight club

Statement of responsibility

20th Century Fox ; Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises present a Linson Films production ; produced by Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell ; screenplay by Jim Uhls ; directed by David Fincher

Contributor

• Dust Brothers
• Fox 2000 Pictures
• Linson Films (Firm)
• Regency Enterprises
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
• Bailey, Eion
• Bell, Ross Grayson
• Bonham Carter, Helena, 1966-
• Chaffin, Ceán
• Cronenweth, Jeff
• Fincher, David
• Grenier, Zach, 1954-
• Leto, Jared, 1971-
• Linson, Art
• McCallany, Holt
• Meat Loaf, (Vocalist), 1947-
• Norton, Edward
• Palahniuk, Chuck
• Pitt, Brad, 1963-
• Uhls, Jim, 1961-

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• Boxing matches -- United States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Hand-to-hand fighting -- United States -- Drama
• Insomniacs -- United States -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama
• Millennialism -- United States -- Drama
• Sales personnel -- United States -- Drama
• Sports films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Violence -- Drama
• Young men -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Sports films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Jeff Cronenweth ; film editor, James Haygood

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for disturbing and graphic depiction of violent anti-social behavior, sexuality and language

Language note

• English, French, Portuguese, Spanish audio; Cantonese, French, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish subtitles
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PerformerNote

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Holt McCallany, Eion Bailey

Runtime

139

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action