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Synopsis: A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): David Fincher
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 34 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
1999
139 min
Website
7,142 Views


Jack looks up as a pudgy man, Jack's BOSS, enters, Starbucks

cup in hand, and slides a stack of reports on Jack's desk.

BOSS:

I'm going to need you out-of-town a

little more this week. We've got

some "red-flags" to cover.

JACK (V.O.)

It must've been Tuesday. he was

wearing his "cornflower-blue" tie.

JACK:

(listless management speak)

You want me to de-prioritize my

current reports until you advise of

a status upgrade?

BOSS:

You need to make these your primary

"action items."

JACK (V.O.)

He was full of pep. Must've had his

grande latte enema.

BOSS:

Here are your flight coupons. Call

me from the road if there are any

snags. Your itinerary...

Jack hides a yawn, pretends to listen.

INT. BATHROOM - JACK'S CONDO - NIGHT

Jack sits on the toilet, CORDLESS PHONE to his ear, flips

through an IKEA catalog. There's a stack of old Playboy

magazines and other catalogs nearby.

JACK (V.O.)

Like everyone else, I had become a

slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.

JACK:

(into phone)

Yes. I'd like to order the Erika

Pekkari slip covers.

Jack drops the open catalog on the floor.

MOVE IN ON CATALOG -- ON PHOTO of COFFEETABLE SET...

JACK (V.O.)

If I saw something like clever coffee

table sin the shape of a yin and

yang, I had to have it.

PAN TO PHOTO of ARMCHAIR...

JACK (V.O.)

Like the Johanneshov armchair in the

Strinne green stripe pattern...

INT. LIVING ROOM/DINING AREA/KITCHEN

The armchair APPEARS. PAN OVER next to armchair...

JACK (V.O.)

Or the Rislampa wire lamps of

environmentally-friendly unbleached

paper.

The lamps APPEAR. PAN OVER to wall...

JACK (V.O.)

Even the Vild hall clock of

galvanized steel, resting on the

Klipsk shelving unit.

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Jim Uhls

James Walter "Jim" Uhls (born March 25, 1957) is an American screenwriter and producer who rose to fame with his script adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel Fight Club. He earned a bachelor of theatre arts degree from Drake University in 1979, and also graduated from the UCLA Theater Program. Currently he is intended to write a screenplay for Trent Reznor's Year Zero-based HBO mini-series. more…

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