Fight Club [Blu-ray]

Director: David Fincher David Fincher

Overview

In this darkly comic drama, Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels alienated from the world at large; he's become so desperate to relate to others that he's taken to visiting support groups for patients with terminal diseases so that he'll have people to talk to. One day on a business flight, he discovers Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charming iconoclast who sells soap. Tyler doesn't put much stock in the materialistic world, and he believes that one can learn a great deal through pain, misfortune, and chaos. Tyler cheerfully challenges his new friend to a fight. Our Narrator finds that bare-knuckle brawling makes him feel more alive than he has in years, and soon the two become friends and roommates, meeting informally to fight once a week. As more men join in, the "fight club" becomes an underground sensation, even though it's a closely guarded secret among the participants. (First rule: Don't talk about fight club. Second rule: Don't talk about fight club.) But as our Narrator and Tyler bond through violence, a strange situation becomes more complicated when Tyler becomes involved with Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), whom our Narrator became infatuated with when they were both crashing the support-group circuit. Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club was directed by David Fincher, who previously directed Pitt in the thriller Seven.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/17/2009
UPC:	0024543617907
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	20TH CENTURY FOX
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:19:00

Special Features

Commentary by director David Fincher; Commentary by David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton & Helena Bonham Carter; Writers' commentary by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls; Technical commentary by Alex McDowell, Jeff Cronenweth, Michael Kaplan & Kevin Haug; Exclusive to Blu-Ray: A Hit in the Ear: Ren Klyce and the sound design of Fight Club; Flogging Fight Club featurette; Insomniac Mode: I am Jack's search index; Behind-the-scenes vignettes with multiple angles and commentary; Deleted and alternate scenes; Trailers, TV and internet spots; PSAs; Music video; Promotional galleries; Art galleries

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brad Pitt	Tyler
Helena Bonham Carter	Marla
Jared Leto	Angel Face
Zach Grenier	Boss
Richmond Arquette	Doctor
David Andrews	Thomas
George Maguire	Testicular Cancer Support Group Leader
Eugenie Bondurant	Weeping Woman
Christina Cabot	Leader Partners in Positivity
Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston	Speaker, Free and Clear,Actor
Rachel Singer	Chloe
Christie Cronenweth	Airline Check-in Attendant
Tim de Zarn	Federated Motor Co. Inspector Bird
Ezra Buzzington	Technician No. 2
Dierdre Downing Jackson	Business Woman on Plane
Robert J. Stephenson	Airport Security Officer
Charlie Dell	Doorman at Pearson Towers
Rob Lanza	Man in Suit
Van Quattro	Detective Andrew
Markus Redmond	Detective Kevin
Michael Girardin	Detective Walker
Peter Iacangelo	Lou
Carl N. Ciarfalio	Lou's Body Guard,Lou's Body Guard
Matt Winston	Seminary Student
Joon B. Kim	Raymond K. Hessel
Pat McNamara	Commissioner Jacobs
David Lee Smith	Walter
Holt McCallany	The Mechanic
Joel Bissonnette	Food Court Matire d'
Evan Mirand	`Steph'
Robby Robinson	Next Month's Opponent
Lou Beatty Jr.	Cop at Marla's Building
Thom Gossom Jr.	Detective Stern
Valerie Bickford	Cosmetics Buyer
Stuart Blumberg	Car Salesman
Todd Peirce	First Man at Auto Shop
Mark Fite	Second Man at Auto Shop
Bennie E. Moore	Bus Driver with Broken Nose,Bus Driver with Broken Nose
W. Lauren Sanchez	Channel 4 Reporter,Channel 4 Reporter
Tyrone R. Livingston	Banquet Speaker
Owen Masterson	Airport Valet
David Jean-Thomas	Policeman
Paul Carafotes	Salvator/Winking Bartender
Christopher John Fields	Proprietor of Dry Cleaners
Anderson Bourell	Bruised Bar Patron No. 1
Scotch Ellis Loring	Bruised Bar Patron No. 2
Michael Shamus Wiles	Bartender in Halo
Andi Carnick	Hotel Desk Clerk
Edward Kowalczyk	Waiter at Clifton's
Leonard Termo	Desk Sergeant
Meat Loaf	Robert
Dierdre Downing-Jackson	Woman on Plane
Eion Bailey	Ricky
Peter Lacangelo	Actor
Edward Norton	Narrator
Michael Simpson	Composer
John King	Composer
The Dust Brothers	Composer

Technical Credits

Jim Uhls

Chuck Palahniuk

David Fincher	Director
Ross Grayson Bell	Producer,Producer
Cean Chaffin	Producer
Kevin Tod Haug	Special Effects
Art Linson	Producer
Laray Mayfield	Casting
Arnon Milchan	Executive Producer,Producer
Michael Runyard	Stunts
Cliff Wenger	Special Effects
Jim Uhls	Screenwriter
Ren Klyce	Sound/Sound Designer
John S. Dorsey	Producer
Joshua Kolden	Special Effects
Christine Rivard	Special Effects
Wayne Burnes	Special Effects
Donn Markel	Special Effects
Carl Ciarfalio	Stunts
Ryan Christopher Keys	Stunts
Chuck Palahniuk	Screenwriter
Jeff Wexler	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Unrelentingly savage and diabolically witty, Fight Club romanticizes violence as the last recourse of men who feel emasculated by the drudgery and predictability of modern urban life. That sentiment is initially articulated by narrator Edward Norton, playing an angst-ridden corporate drone who anesthetizes himself with mindless consumerism and support-group participation. Norton's unnamed character is roused from his torpor after encountering soap salesman Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, sweeping away the last vestiges of his glamour-boy image), charismatic leader of disaffected males who hold clandestine meetings and achieve self-realization by pummeling one another into submission. Director David Fincher (Seven), working from an irony-laced script by Jim Uhls (adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk), drenches his able cast in testosterone and assaults the audience with graphic sequences of hand-to-hand combat. Mesmerizing in its almost fetishistic depiction of brutality, Fight Club seizes the viewer's attention from the beginning and grips it firmly through the shocking surprise ending.