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Fight Club
Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
Directed by: David Fincher
Written by: Chuck Palahnuik / Jim Uhls
Released: 15 October 1999 [USA], 12 November 1999 [UK]
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Co-Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf
SYNOPSIS
Fight Club is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups.
Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or "tourist," the morose Marla Singer, who immediately gets under his skin. However, while
returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden. They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust
for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their
frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things
start getting really crazy.
IMAGE GALLERY
TRIVIA
#- While Edward Norton is trying to convince Helena Bonham Carter to leave the city by bus, the crew arranged cinema signs to make references to
other films the cast had been in, although only one is visible during the actual scene. Seven Years in Tibet (1997) (starring Brad Pitt) is visible,
although the sign letters actually say "Seven Year In Tibe" as if the theatre didn't have the required letters. Other marquees (in the far background, and
not visible) reportedly said The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) (starring Norton) and The Wings of the Dove (1997) (starring Carter).
QUOTES
"Candy-stripe a cancer ward. It's not my problem."
"I've got a stomachful of Xanax. I took what was left of a bottle. It might have been too much."
"Your whacked out bald freaks hit me with a fucking broom! They almost broke my arm! They we're burning their fingertips with lye, the stink was unbelievable!"
"My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school."
"There are things about you that I like. You're smart, you're funny, you're... spectacular in bed... But you're intolerable! You have
very serious emotional problems. Deep seated problems for which you should seek professional help."
"You're not getting this back. I consider it asshole tax."
"A condom is the glass slipper for our generation. You slip one on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, and then you throw it away. The condom,
I mean, not the stranger."
"It's a bridesmaid's dress. Someone loved it intensely for one day, and then tossed it. Like a Christmas tree. So special. Then, bam, it's on the side of
the road.Tinsel still clinging to it. Like a sex crime victim. Underwear inside out. Bound with electrical tape."
"You're the worst thing that's ever happened to me. "
EXTERNAL LINKS
Official Site
The official movie site.
Internet Movie Database
Additional cast and credits. Plot summary and more.
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TERMINATOR SALVATION
HP: HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
