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  • 1999
  • R
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 19 m

Summary The film's narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups of all kinds as a way to "experience" something within his unfeeling, commercial existence. On a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Bradd Pitt) who encourages them to form a fight club as a release for their latent aggressive tendencies.

Directed By: David Fincher

Written By: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls

  • 1999
  • R
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 2 h 19 m
Fight Club
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 2,025 User Ratings
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Summary The film's narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups of all kinds as a way to "experience" something within his unfeeling, commercial existence. On a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Bradd Pitt) who encourages them to form a fight club as a release for their latent aggressive tendencies.

Directed By: David Fincher

Written By: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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26% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 35 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
24 Reviews
26% Mixed
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6% Negative
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100
A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
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It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief.
By Paula Nechak FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 2,025 User Ratings
8.9
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4% Mixed
77 Ratings
4% Negative
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92% Positive
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4% Mixed
77 Ratings
4% Negative
83 Ratings

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Kgatev
Sep 27, 2023
These kinds of scripts are still undoable today, yet fincher, pitt and norton somehow made it and sold it. From a directing standpoint it's flawless, subjectmatter was risky, but we all know how it turned out. One of the best movies ever made.
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Punko
Sep 12, 2023
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80
A brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
75
As a piece of storytelling, Fight Club is a bit of a dud: It's a good 15 minutes too long, and the tension doesn't build the way you wish it would.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
63
Keeps filmgoers wondering what will happen next even as they are repulsed by what's happening in front of them.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
50
Undermines its serious undertones with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
25
If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
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10
k1erx
Jul 18, 2023
крутой и одновременно странный и интригующий сюжет ,персонажи прикольные ,задумка фильма прикольная
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6
Nebulaweave
Mar 21, 2022
With a gun your mouth you only speak in vows in unbleached parer and I wonder if her **** had been circumcised.
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wendyisabigail
Oct 12, 2017
Typical alter ego plot, taken to the extreme! If not for the monotone narrative undermining the violence, I wouldn't have gotten too far into the movie.
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Viperspider
Apr 26, 2013
Extremely over-hyped. The first hour is mind-numbingly boring, the rest is a mediocre story about terrorism with a stupid plot twist which makes you wonder why people joined the fight club at the very start..
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oblique15
Jun 10, 2013
I don`t care if the point of this movie is deep. It`s still a movie with guys just running around doing pointless crap! This is Dumb and Dumber the serious version.
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Production Company Fox 2000 Pictures, New Regency Productions, Linson Films, Atman Entertainment, Knickerbocker Films, Taurus Film
Release Date Oct 15, 1999
Duration 2 h 19 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
Website https://www.facebook.com/FightClub
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Awards Circuit Community Awards
• 1 Win & 12 Nominations
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 4 Wins & 10 Nominations

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