An insomniac office worker starts a bare-knuckle club with a soap salesman. Directed by David Fincher, released 1999.
Plot
A nameless narrator with chronic insomnia finds relief in support groups for illnesses he does not have. After meeting Tyler Durden he starts a fight club in a bar basement, which grows into a network of cells and then into an organised campaign against consumer credit. The narrator loses control of it well before he understands what it is.
Review, written by AI
A satire that a good number of viewers have taken as an instruction manual, which is either its failure or its subject. Norton and Pitt are both very funny in it, a fact the film's reputation tends to lose. The design work — the IKEA catalogue apartment, the corroded interiors — has been imitated for twenty-five years.