| Fight Club is a 1999 feature film adaptation of the 1996 novel Fight
Club by Chuck Palahniuk, adapted by Jim Uhls and directed by David
Fincher. Fight Club explores themes of psychological emasculation
in modern white-collar society, with Edward Norton playing a disillusioned
everyman who meets a woman similar to him (Helena Bonham Carter) and
a soap salesman (Brad Pitt) who embodies his repressed masculinity.
The two men establish a club for men to engage in fist fights, and
later, radical revolutionary acts.
While the film performed below expectations at the box office in
the United States, and received lukewarm reviews from major news
outlets during its theatrical run, its release on DVD brought it
critical acclaim and belated praise from its viewers, and recognition
as a cult film.
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