Fight Club is a 1999 crime film directed by David Fincher and based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton and was not a box office success in its year, ranking 54th with domestic earnings of $37 million on a $63 million budget. The film follows an insomniac office worker who starts an underground fighting club with soap salesman Tyler Durden, portrayed by Brad Pitt.