USA, 1999
139m
Super 35mm film (anamorphic), Technicolor, 2.35:1
Dolby EX 6.1, DTS, English
An American fantasy film directed by David Fincher.
Plot Summary
A disaffected young man finds himself teaming up with the seriously eccentric Tyler Durden to create Fight Club, an informal gathering of equally alienated men who meet once a week to pummel each other senseless. But Fight Club soon leads to Project Mayhem and thinks start to get out of control – and is Tyler Durden really who he says he is?
Credits
Crew
Directed by: David Fincher
© 1999 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Monarchy Enterprises B.V. and Regency Entertainemnt (USA), Inc.
Fox 200 Pictures and Regency Enterprises present a Linson Films production. A David Fincher film. In asdsociation with Taurus Film. Produced and released by Twentieth Century Fox
Executive Producer: Arnon Milchan
Produced by: Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell
Associate Producer: John S. Dorsey
Screenplay by: Jim Uhls
Based on the Novel by: Chuck Palahniuk
Director of Photography: Jeff Cronenweth
Film Editor: James Haygood
Music by: The Dust Brothers (Michael Simpson and John King)
Sound Mixer: Jeff WExler
Costume Designer: Michael Kaplan
Key Make-Up Artist: Julie Pearce
Key Hair Stylist: Frida Aradottir
Special Make-up Effects Supervisor: Rob Bottin
Special Make-up Effects: Rob Bottin Productions, Inc.
Special Dental Effects: Rick Glassman
Special Effects Coordinator: Cliff Wenger
Special Effects: Derrell “Shawn” Roberts, Derrick Crane, Kevin Pike
Visual Effects Supervisor: Kevin Tod Haug
Special Visual Effects and Digital Animation by: Blue Sky Studios; Buf Inc.
Digital Film Scanning/Digital Visual Effects: Command Post Toybox, Toronto
Special Visual Effects and Digital Animation by: Digital Domain; Gray Matter FX; Image Savant
Production Designer: Alex McDowell
Casting by: Laray Mayfield
Cast
Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden)
Edward Norton (narrator)
Helena Bonham Carter (Marla Singer)
Meat Loaf [Meat Loaf Aday in end credits] (Robert Paulsen)
Jared Leto (Angel Face)
Zach Grenier (Richard Chesler (regional manager))
Holt McCallany (the mechanic)
Eion Bailey (Ricky)
Richmond Arquette (intern at hospital)
David Andrews (Thomas at Remaining Men Together)
George Maguire (group leader – Remaining Men Together)
Eugenie Bondurant (weeping woman – Onward and Upward)
Christina Cabot (leader – Partners in Passivity)
Sydney “Big Dawg” Colston (speaker – Free and Clear)
Rachel Singer (Chloe)
Christie Cronenweth (airline check-in attendant)
Tim De Zarn (Federated Motor Co. Inspector Bird)
Ezra Buzzington (Federated Motor Co. Inspector Dent)
Dierdre Downing-Jackson (business woman on plane)
Robert J. Stephenson (airport security officer)
Links
See also
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Brazil (1985)
Cinderella (1950)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Film Club (2000)
Independence Day (1996)
The Matrix (1999)
Meng long guojiang (1972)
Performance (1970)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Scary Movie (2000)
Se7en (1995)
Spice World (1997)
Total Recall (1990)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
The X Files (1993-2018)
References
Periodicals
Apollo 1st on Video no.100 (May 2000) – illustrated interview with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
Cinema vol.1 no.258 (November 1999) pp.40-45 – review (Blut für die Welt by Roland Huschke)
Cinema vol.1 no.98 (January 2000) pp.18-23 – review (Harcosok klubja by Roland Huschke)
Entertainment Weekly no.507 (15 October 1999) pp.24-28, 31 – article (Blood, Sweat and Fears by Benjamin Svetkey)
Entertainment Weekly no.508 (22 October 1999) pp.58-60 – article (Dead Battery by Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Entertainment Weekly no.536 (21 April 2000) p.59 – review (Video: Boxer Rebellion (B) by Ty Burr)
Entertainment Weekly no.545 (16 June 2000) p.67 – review (New to DVD: Fight Club (A) by Marc Brenardin)
Filmvilág vol.43 no.1 (January 2000) p.58 – review (by Zsolt Pápai)
Rolling Stone vol.1 no.824 (28 October 1999) pp.113-114 – review (Fight Club by Peter Travers)
Shivers no.78 (June 2000) p.43 – illustrated video review (Video reviews by Stephen Foster)
Sight & Sound vol.9 no.11 (November 1999) pp.16-18 – illustrated article (So good it hurts by Amy Taubin)
Total Film no vol.1 no.10 (January 2000) pp.46-48; 70-71 – article (Hogyan merészelnek ilyen szégyentelen filmet csinálni? by Martyn Palmer); review (by Tamás Ligeti Nagy)
Variety vol.376 no.4 (13 September 1999) p.47 – review (Fight Club: An adrenaline rush of a movie by David Rooney)
Vox Magazin vol.1 no.33 (January 2000) pp.52-55 – review (by Cheese)
Newspapers
Diário de Notícias 12 November 1999 – review (by João Miguel Tavares)
Göteborgs-Posten 24 December 1999 p.56 – review (Suspekt människosyn by Mats Johnson)
La Repubblica 11 September 1999 – review (by Natalia Aspesi)
Svenska Dagbladet 24 December 1999 – review (Brad Pitt i nattmössan by Jan Söderqvist)
Willamette Week vol.25 no.51 (20 October 1999) pp.86-87 – review (Suckers get punched by Kim Morgan)
Other sources
BFI Southbank Guide October-November 2017 p.32 – illustrated listing
