Fight Club
Movie, 1999, The '90s, Set in A basement in the suburbs
Fight Club is #4 of 13 in release order and #4 of 13 in chronological order in the David Fincher.
The story
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Fight Club recap
Fight Club (1999) follows an unnamed insomniac office worker who falls in with Tyler Durden, a soap salesman who preaches freedom through fighting. David Fincher directs from Jim Uhls's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel. Edward Norton plays the Narrator, an insurance investigator who calms his insomnia by posing as a sufferer at support groups, until another impostor, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), ruins it for him. After his condo explodes, he moves into Tyler's (Brad Pitt) decaying house, and a parking lot brawl between them grows into an underground fight club for men. Tyler sleeps with Marla, which the Narrator resents. He blackmails his boss, quits his job, and watches the club turn into Project Mayhem, a nationwide group of Tyler's followers who shave their heads and carry out vandalism against corporations. When the police kill his friend Bob Paulsen (Meat Loaf) during a mission, the Narrator sets out to stop Tyler. Fight Club is Fincher's fourth feature, after The Game and before Panic Room.
Fight Club ending explained
Fight Club ends with the reveal that Tyler is the Narrator's other personality, active while he thinks he is asleep. Tyler's plan is to blow up the headquarters of credit card companies and erase the debt record. Unable to stop it through the police, who belong to Project Mayhem, the Narrator puts a gun in his own mouth and shoots through his cheek, which makes Tyler vanish. He takes Marla's hand as the towers collapse outside the window. In the novel, the bombs fail and the Narrator wakes up in a mental hospital.
Post-credits scenes
No. Fight Club has no mid- or post-credits scene.
Where to watch Fight Club
Fight Club isn't on a US streaming service right now. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 8.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 81%
Where it fits
- Release order: after The Game, before Panic Room.
- Chronological order: after The Game, before Panic Room.
Cast
- Edward Norton as Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson
- Jared Leto as Angel Face
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler (Regional Manager)
- Holt McCallany as The Mechanic
- Eion Bailey as Ricky
- Richmond Arquette as Intern at Hospital
- David Andrews as Thomas at Remaining Men Together
- George Maguire as Group Leader at Remaining Men Together
- Eugenie Bondurant as Weeping Woman - Onward and Upward
Directed by David Fincher.