---
title: 'Fight Club (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Fincher'
released: '1999-09-10'
runtime_minutes: 139
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fight-club-1999'
review_count: 1
fandom_rating: '8.50/10'
fandom_stars: '4.25/5'
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Fight Club (1999)

1999 · R · 139 min · Drama, Thriller · Germany, United States


## Synopsis

Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with a soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Pitt) and becomes embroiled with an impoverished but beguiling woman, Marla Singer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Fincher](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-fincher)
- **Screenplay:** [Chuck Palahniuk](https://cinepixo.com/people/chuck-palahniuk), [Jim Uhls](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-uhls)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dust Brothers](https://cinepixo.com/people/dust-brothers)
- **Producer:** [Art Linson](https://cinepixo.com/people/art-linson), [Ceán Chaffin](https://cinepixo.com/people/cean-chaffin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jeff Cronenweth](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeff-cronenweth)
- **Editor:** [James Haygood](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-haygood)

## Cast

- [Eddie Hargitay](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-hargitay)
- [Rachel Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-singer)
- [Richmond Arquette](https://cinepixo.com/people/richmond-arquette)
- [Brian Tochi](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-tochi)
- [Carl Ciarfalio](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-ciarfalio)
- [Bob Stephenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-stephenson)
- [Matt Winston](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-winston)
- [David Lee Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lee-smith)
- [Brad Pitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/brad-pitt) as Tyler Durden
- [Eugenie Bondurant](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugenie-bondurant)
- [Christina Cabot](https://cinepixo.com/people/christina-cabot)
- [Ezra Buzzington](https://cinepixo.com/people/ezra-buzzington)
- [Stuart Blumberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/stuart-blumberg)
- [Zach Grenier](https://cinepixo.com/people/zach-grenier)
- [Tim de Zarn](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-de-zarn)

## Criticism on CinePixo

Fandom rating: **8.50/10** (4.25 of 5) from 1 review — the plain average of every published rating.

- **8.5/10** — [Soap, Insomnia, and the Best Bad Idea of 1999](https://cinepixo.com/reviews/soap-insomnia-and-the-best-bad-idea-of-1999) by Dorothy Kwan, 2026-08-04
  > Fight Club has the philosophy of a clever sophomore and the filmmaking of a man at the absolute top of his powers, and the filmmaking wins the argument by about forty minutes.

Official site: https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/fight-club
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/fight-club-1999
Film facts: Wikidata (Q190050); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.