Adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club was one of the most talked about and controversial films of the 1990s. The unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) is an alienated insomniac stuck in a dull white-collar job who finds temporary emotional release by attending disease support groups. A chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a subversive soap salesman, frees him from the banality of his existence. The two become friends and roommates, bonding over their mutual disgust for consumer culture and their unusual weekly ritual: they fight each other for fun. Soon they form Fight Club, an underground group where disaffected young men channel primal aggression into brutal, bare-knuckled brawls that leave them feeling exhilarated and alive. The concept catches on, with secret fight clubs forming in other cities until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.