Name: FIGHT CLUB (1999) - on the big screen!
Start: 2025-09-12T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Cinema Arts Centre

Night Owl Cinema
FIGHT CLUB
on the big screen!
From director David Fincher
Friday, September 12th at 9:30 PM
Unsatisfied with his work, his home and his life, an insomniac (Edward Norton) struggles to find meaning in his mundane existence. But a fateful encounter with the mysterious and anarchic Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) changes things, with the pair finding an escape through bare-knuckle brawls in an underground alliance of men known as Fight Club. Suddenly, the club he leads is growing – but can he maintain control? What is Tyler’s real agenda? And what does a woman named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham-Carter) have to do with it? A nameless yuppie insomniac (Edward Norton) and a glamorous soap salesman (Brad Pitt) process late 1990s angst through bare-knuckled therapy in David Fincher’s ultra-sleek adaptation of the novel by diesel-mechanic-turned-writer Chuck Palahniuk disappointed at the box office upon its release, when it was met with mixed reviews—labeling it everything from “cheerfully fascist” to “one sustained psychosexual ejaculation”—but it soon found a cult following. Nihilistic, uncompromising, downright hypocritical, and one of the most influential Hollywood films of the 1990s, Fight Club achieved the remarkably straight-faced feat of denouncing rampant consumerism through its use of celebrity actors and state-of-the-art style.