Fight Club (1999)

Details

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Starring

Edward NortonBrad PittHelena Bonham CarterMeat LoafJared Leto

Director

David Fincher

Writer

Chuck PalahniukJim Uhls

Genre

DramaThriller

Release Date

Oct 15, 1999

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  References to dildos

  A montage of a couple having sex.

  Female breast nudity. Male rear and frontal nudity.

  Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is riding a bicycle with nothing on his bottom, it is dark and not clearly visible. When Tyler falls of his bicycle we see his butt.

  Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is shown cutting pornography reels. There is 1 reel which shows a penis. There are 2 more reels where someone's holding a woman's breasts and another one shows someone sucking a woman's breasts.

  Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) are having sex. Nudity is also shown on-screen. Moaning can also be heard.

  While Narrator (Edward Norton) washes his clothes, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) walks up to him and puts her hand on his crotch.

  At the end a man's penis can be seen for a single frame.

  In a dream a man was dreaming of a woman naked all you saw was her breasts only for 5 seconds.

• Violence Severe

  Several fist fights with bloody injury and coughing up blood.

  A midair collision; we see an airplane's cabin destroyed and people and seats being sucked out.

  A character is threatened with castration.

  A character wets a man's hand and pours lye on it, creating a chemical burn. The skin blisters and partly melts away.

  A man shoots himself through the cheek. Lots of blood. Another has a gory bullet hole on the back of his head.

  An explosion causes debris to crash into a coffee shop.

  A character punches and flails himself and breaks a glass table; glass punctures his arm/hand. Blood seen.

  A man is thrown down a staircase.

  A man's forehead is stitched offscreen after a fight.

  A man drives a car recklessly. It crashes, injuring those inside.

• Profanity Severe

  Atleast 74 uses of f**k.

  16 Uses of "s**t."

  7 uses of "godd**n" is said.

  "Ass" is said 5 times.

  "A single use of cock.

  "Titties" is said.

  Use of "b**ch-tits".

  6 usages of tits, 1 use of cock, 3 uses of Christ, 1 use of Christ almighty, 1 use of Jesus Christ, 4 uses of Jesus.

• Drugs Moderate

  A woman threatens suicide by overdosing on Xanax.

  A bottle of pills is seen a few times.

  Vodka and beer drinking.

  There is smoking.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  The film depicts acts of urban vandalism and fighting.

  A man's face is beaten to a pulp, with teeth missing.

  This movie is extremely graphic and disturbing.

  Multiple very intense fighting scenes, can be frightening to sensetive audiences.

  During the last 20 minutes, the film becomes extremely intense, tense, and sometimes disturbing.

  The film director manages to make the messy combat shown in the film feel physically awful to see. This may affect audiences sensitive to violence.

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